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Australians report having sex once or twice a week, on average. For Brits, it's less than once a week, while Americans report having sex two to three times a week.
We can't know for sure how often individuals actually have sex. Some people may incorrectly report their sexual frequency, either by mistake or on purpose. But the national estimates data are based on representative samples, so they're a useful guide.
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In fact, Australians and Americans are having less sex than they used to in past decades.Aussies had sex about 20 times fewer in 2013 than a decade before. Americans had sex nine times fewer, on average, in 2014 than a decade before.
Increased competition for our free time from smartphones, expanded entertainment options, and other sources is cited as causes for the drop in frequency.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @04:29AM (22 children)
Generation X here, and still a virgin. I'd say that I bring down the average, but I'm pretty sure that Snow and I cancel each other out.
(Score: 1) by The Vocal Minority on Tuesday February 26 2019, @05:40AM (8 children)
Good god man, see a professional (and I'm not talking about a psychologist if you get my meaning).
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday February 26 2019, @05:54AM
AC should be sent to a "re-education camp" to prevent "him"* from causing a mass killing [bbc.com].
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:17AM
Not everyone can own a professional Football team. Just saying.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @10:21AM (1 child)
Not worth it at all. And the GP not as unusual as the general society thinks it is. GP just needs to find someone instead of waiting around hoping for the best. That's all. I waited way too long too, but now I'm glad I did (and so is my wife).
Maybe 40% of the people just care about the physical part of sex, but that leaves majority that value the other parts more than the physical. And for that the professional is the antithesis of what they need.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday February 26 2019, @02:14PM
Sound advice, and the article ought to take that as well. Sex is the whole tone of the article. Not love, not commitment, not happiness, not even quantity or quality of offspring. Just sex.
It's sound scientific method to control all the other variables and focus on just one thing. But this is the very sort of research that will be extrapolated wildly. How many who fall below the average are going to feel a bit inadequate, or jealous, or just sad? Studying relationships in this fashion is like trying to manage your baseball team by using only the numbers of moves from 3rd base to home. Need to consider more than that. Maybe people aren't getting to 1st base? Not hitting the ball? Or maybe they are trying too hard to steal 2nd and ending up out? There's an awful lot that leads up to 3rd base, starting with making it on the team.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @12:13PM (2 children)
Doesn't count if you pay 'em.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 26 2019, @04:10PM (1 child)
Does it count if they pay you?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @05:31PM
Wait a minute! Wait just one minute! Women are paying you to have sex with them?!?!? Could you give us some pointers on your technique? I am genuinely fascinated by what you might share with us.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Sulla on Tuesday February 26 2019, @11:40PM
And lose his wizard powers? If its anything like being an ex-paladin he came a long way to throw away the class features.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 5, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:14AM (10 children)
Just to be clear, self-reporting on things like this is fraught, fraught! I say, with hazards. For example, Snow, who was brought up as an example, is a Canadian. Now the study, as far as we can tell from the Fine Summery, only covers Brits, Auzzies, and Americans. Wait a minute, that in itself is strange and evidence of a biased sample.
But back to Snow: we have no objective evidence that he has ever had sex. Yes, you protest, but his wife gave birth! But his is admittedly an open marriage, so what are we to infer from that? Self-reporting, especially by males, about sex is notoriously unreliable, so we are more than justified in flipping the reported frequencies 180 degrees. Snow has never had sex, to the power of negative Four. From our data on SoylentNews.
Ethanol_fueled? That poor anti-semitic incel!
TMB, he of the self-reported Bootie calls? Fish, catfish. Nothing sucks better than a catfish, if you can avoid the spines!
We could keep going, including the alleged Booty-bumps of the randy Runaway1956, but we are involved in an exercise of speculation against endemically biased self-reporting, so there is little point.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:25AM (4 children)
Ouch. It'd look like you'd been washing it with sandpaper or a wire brush, depending on the size of the fish. I'll stick with the human womens, thanks just the same.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:38AM (3 children)
"Once you go catfish, you never, um, well, you went catfish."
Who is to say that a male, as in a penis, is not meant to be single use? I mean, after the insemination, females no longer need them, except for child support. So the Preying Mantis has it right? Bite his head off, to help him ejaculate. It is your destiny, Luke!
Of course, if you waste your seed on a catfish, at least the fish may go on to have babies, nurtured by the protein your contributed to the Catfish's digestive tract. You did not serious believe that I was suggesting . . . Oh My God! Miscegenation! Loving v. Virginia, with catfish? Where, exactly, are you probing the fish?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 26 2019, @03:56PM (2 children)
Of course not. I was just drawing the absurdity out for amusement's sake. Everyone knows carp would totally be the way to go if you were of a mind to fuck a fish.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Wednesday February 27 2019, @12:09AM (1 child)
I would have to guess Buzz is right on this. Catfish, while their teeth are tiny, can bite down with some power. I learned early you don't land them by grabbing the lower lip like you do a bass, they will chomp down and even one not very big can hurt. Carp don't have any teeth, and they don't have jaws that can bite down.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday February 27 2019, @12:24PM
I do anyway until they top fifty pounds. My thumb looks like it's been gnawed on by a wire brush at the end of a particularly good week but it isn't really any more painful than the kind of treatment your hands receive routinely most any time you're carrying tools. I was of a decidedly different opinion before I got the much tougher skin guys pick up in their teens though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:44AM (4 children)
FTFY.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday February 26 2019, @07:09AM (3 children)
Totally confused now we are. Forged with heavy loads? Fraggle Rock? Frolongered with frehensile supraesophageal ganglia? I fear the point is lost, as may have been the intent of the Sabotuerish AC.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @08:52AM (2 children)
Froged/frogged [urbandictionary.com] - adjective - dissed, dumped.
Fraught - adj - used to be past participle of "fraught" when the latter used to be the approximation of the Dutch verb meaning "to load a ship". The today English noun is "freight" and the 'froged' adjective needs a noun like an old philosopher needs a nun.
It makes sense, so it's totally not a self-reported frotted fraud on things like this, and a Polish'turd neither.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:08AM (1 child)
That is what I said.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:52AM
Yeah, but you made the point little, when actually sex is a big deal for humans.
"Fake it 'til you make it" is still better than burying the penis in the sand (errr, sorry, head, yes) on the basis that the self-reported data is unreliable.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday February 26 2019, @07:55PM
I think there's an app for that, now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:12PM
A Gen X virgin? Wow. And I thought I was a late bloomer when I lost it at 34. Wow. Here's some advice that worked for me: If you live in large enough city and you have the money (it's a bit expensive for a single guy), join a swingers club. Becoming a card-carrying member of my local swingers club was one of the best decisions I ever made. During my 10 years of attending, I got to see and do things most people only fantasize about. Do it. You won't regret it.