If you’re reading this article right now, then chances are you’re not having sex. Don’t worry,you’re not alone. A new study by the University of New South Wales shows that Australians now are getting laid far less than in the past, when love was freer and chest hair was bushier.
The Australian Study Of Health And Relationships, released this week and reported by The Australian, paints an interesting picture. In short, we as a nation are having much more adventurous sex than ever before, but also comparatively less of it.
Allow us to sum it up, so you can get back to all of that sex you’re not having.
Firstly, and perhaps most importantly, oral sex is more popular than ever before, especially with the youth. People aged under 20 are having it more than in any previous generation.
21% of men and 14% of women in the under 20 age group reported having oral sex before intercourse – that doesn’t sound like a lot, until you consider that just 3% of people currently in their 60s said that the same was true for them.
It seems the message that there’s other stuff you can do before going all the way is finally getting through.
The study found that straight women have sexual contact with an average of around eight men over the course of their lifetimes, while straight men report having sex with 18 women.
Gay and bisexual men supposedly have an average of 96 partners, while for lesbian and bisexual women, the number is six.
The frequency of sex for Australian adults has also decreased to 1.4 times per week. That said, many more people are choosing to masturbate.
Around 75% of men report having jerked off in the last year – which means that around 25% of men are probably liars – while around 42% of women claim to have given it a go.
63% of men and 20% of women have looked at “some form of pornography” in the last year.
Kidding aside, the study also turned up some worrying data, in terms of coercion and consensual sex. Around 20% of women and 4% of men reported being “forced and frightened into doing something sexual that they did not want.”
12% of women and 2% of men report that this unwanted contact occurred before the age of 17, which is also emphatically not okay.
The Australian have a detailed infographic of the study that you can look at here.
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