whatsup 11893 Report post Posted April 25, 2009 1: Ready, set, go?there?s nearly no difference in the amount of time it takes healthy men and women to reach peak sexual arousal: roughly 10 minutes. 2: One per cent of adults have zero interest in sex and have never felt sexually attracted to anyone at all. Asexuality may be an under-the-radar sexual orientation, but researchers have only just begun to study it. On the other end of the rainbow, an estimated 3 to 6 per cent of the population have some form of sex addiction. 3: Straight, gay or flexible? Recent research suggests women may be ?intrinsically bisexual,? and the higher their libido, the more they desire both sexes. In another study, the female subjects?whether they considered themselves straight or gay?were physically aroused by erotic films of both men and women. In contrast, the straight men were excited just by women, and the gay men only by men. 4: Canadian men have, on average, 23 sexual partners in total (notably more than the global average of 13), according to one recent worldwide survey. Their female counterparts reportedly have 10. The hitch? Number crunchers say the finding that men have substantially more bedmates on average than women is mathematically impossible. 5: Beyond its unsexy smell and taste, smoking appears to double a man?s risk of moderate or complete erectile dysfunction. 6: Once upon a time, doctors treated women suffering from ?hysteria? by stimulating them to orgasm?a service dubbed ?medical massage.? By the 1930s, it was abandoned in favour of psychotherapy. 7: Why do I bed thee? Let me count the ways. U.S. researchers who set out to catalogue all the reasons why humans have sex came up with 237 distinct ones. Among the top 10 motives, women and men had eight in common. A notable exception: ?I realized I was in love? came in at number nine for women, but at number 17 for men. 8: Having sex regularly?at least once a week?may promote fertility in women by regulating hormones and menstrual patterns. 9: Male sweat contains androstadienone, a compound that enhances mood and sexual arousal in women. Alas, it also boosts levels of stress hormones. The chemical has been used as an ingredient in men?s fragrances. 10: What?s love got to do with it? Sexual arousal and romantic love activate quite distinct areas of the brain?and love is clearly the more powerful. The latter turns on dopamine-rich regions linked with motivation, and falling in love is not unlike the rush of taking cocaine, hence the addictiveness of a new crush, and the withdrawal-like symptoms of love lost. http://ca.lifestyle.yahoo.com/family-relationships/articles/sex/stjoseph-fashion/-10_things_you_don_t_know_about_sex 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spud271 47779 Report post Posted April 25, 2009 Now those are some very interesting facts whatsup. Curious to know how accurate it is, but very fascinating. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miss Scarlett 25073 Report post Posted April 25, 2009 I knew some of them, but that was really insightful! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest W***ledi*Time Report post Posted April 25, 2009 Number crunchers say the finding that men have substantially more bedmates on average than women is mathematically impossible ... http://ca.lifestyle.yahoo.com/family...know_about_sex Impossible only if we assume that the bedmates of men must be women! Okay, but having assumed this ... one theory for the discrepancy, which can be summarized as "men can't count so they have to guess", lol: Brown, N.R., & Sinclair, R.C. (1999). Estimating number of lifetime sexual partners: Men and women do it differently. The Journal of Sex Research, 36, 292-297. by Alexander McKay It has often been noted that in surveys, men typically report having had more lifetime sexual partners than do women. (However, when asked how many sexual partners they have had in the past year, men and women, on average, will report a similar number of partners.) The discrepancy in the number of lifetime sexual partners reported by men and women is troubling because within a given population the number of opposite-sex sexual partners reported by men and women should be roughly the same (i.e., every new sexual partner for a man must, assuming a heterosexual interaction, also be a new sexual partner for a woman). Brown and Sinclair hypothesized that men and women may use different strategies to estimate their lifetime number of sexual partners and that this results in the discrepant numbers given by men and women. When people are asked to estimate event frequencies they will usually either enumerate (i.e., retrieve and count event instances) or give rough approximations (i.e., produce rapid intuitive estimates). Generally, people who enumerate tend to underestimate event frequencies while people who use rough approximations tend to overestimate event frequencies. According to Brown and Sinclair, if women enumerate when estimating lifetime number of sexual partners and men use rough approximations, it would provide an explanation... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drlove 37204 Report post Posted April 25, 2009 Very informative... thanks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rickoshadows 937 Report post Posted April 25, 2009 4: Canadian men have, on average, 23 sexual partners in total (notably more than the global average of 13), according to one recent worldwide survey. Their female counterparts reportedly have 10. The hitch? Number crunchers say the finding that men have substantially more bedmates on average than women is mathematically impossible. Impossible only if we assume that the bedmates of men must be women! Or that all of their partners are in Canada. Many men take the opportunity to have sex with different partners while traveling. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
