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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: 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.