I definitely agree with the first point, men often over report, women often under report.
As far as marriage - I think a lot more married people have frequent sex than the common joke would imply. The one factor that seems to impede that is a new baby in the house, but even so, we take every opportunity we can possibly manage to run off and have some sort of sex fun. If you account for all the marriages that don't involve children, and all the marriages where the children are old enough that the parents can have "private time" a couple times of week, and all the marriages where the newborns aren't super-light sleepers, the statistic doesn't sound that odd to me.
I could potentially believe the third statistic, but I'm sure there is still a little bit of the same phenomenon as the sexual partners stats. A single girl that sleeps with men on the first date could date ten men, which would make 10 guys that sleep with women on the first date and only one woman that does so. Then again, this would skew the first statistic, so there's obviously misreporting somewhere.
Threesomes, though possibly *slightly* high in that statistic, are not as rare as you might think. I've had threesomes thrown at me on more than one occasion without even trying (including while I was sleeping... that was a little weird), and I've directly witnessed plenty of the awkward three people leaving a room together the morning after. Not to mention my wife who had a long-term threesome relationship. And all the couples that advertise on personal sites that they're looking for a guy or girl to play with. Threesomes are everywhere. :)
Again, I think the reporting is probably skewed at least a little bit for all of these. It's often a stigma for a woman to have "lots" of sex, which isn't usually true for men.
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have you looked down to see the thing you had been looking for for an hour was righ beneath your nose?
Which percentages didn't you believe?
I definitely agree with the first point, men often over report, women often under report.
As far as marriage - I think a lot more married people have frequent sex than the common joke would imply. The one factor that seems to impede that is a new baby in the house, but even so, we take every opportunity we can possibly manage to run off and have some sort of sex fun. If you account for all the marriages that don't involve children, and all the marriages where the children are old enough that the parents can have "private time" a couple times of week, and all the marriages where the newborns aren't super-light sleepers, the statistic doesn't sound that odd to me.
I could potentially believe the third statistic, but I'm sure there is still a little bit of the same phenomenon as the sexual partners stats. A single girl that sleeps with men on the first date could date ten men, which would make 10 guys that sleep with women on the first date and only one woman that does so. Then again, this would skew the first statistic, so there's obviously misreporting somewhere.
Threesomes, though possibly *slightly* high in that statistic, are not as rare as you might think. I've had threesomes thrown at me on more than one occasion without even trying (including while I was sleeping... that was a little weird), and I've directly witnessed plenty of the awkward three people leaving a room together the morning after. Not to mention my wife who had a long-term threesome relationship. And all the couples that advertise on personal sites that they're looking for a guy or girl to play with. Threesomes are everywhere. :)
Again, I think the reporting is probably skewed at least a little bit for all of these. It's often a stigma for a woman to have "lots" of sex, which isn't usually true for men.
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