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Sex is More Satisfying Where Genders Have More Equality
JSOnline via AP ^ | April 19, 2006 | AP Staff Writer

Posted on 04/19/2006 4:40:07 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

CHICAGO (AP) -- Japanese adults can't get enough satisfaction, but Austria's mojo is working.

Sex is more satisfying in countries where women and men are considered equal, according to an international study of people between the ages of 40 and 80 by researchers at the University of Chicago.

Austria topped the list of 29 nations studied with 71 percent of those surveyed reported being satisfied with their sex lives.

Spain, Canada, Belgium and the United States also reported high rates of satisfaction.

The lowest satisfaction rate - 25.7 percent - was reported in Japan.

The study was led by sociologist Edward Laumann, considered a top authority on the sociology of sex, who believes the findings show that relationships based on equality lead to more satisfaction for both genders.

"Male-centered cultures where sexual behavior is more oriented toward procreation tend to discount the importance of sexual pleasure for women," Laumann said.

"When mama's not happy, nobody's happy," he said.

The study appears in the April issue of the Archives of Sexual Behavior. It was funded by Pfizer, which makes the impotence drug Viagra.

Researchers surveyed 27,500 people by phone, in person or by mail, depending on local practices. The difference in questioning methods was one of the study's limitations, the researchers noted.

A nation's level of health and education could contribute to the findings, said John DeLamater, a professor at the University of Wisconsin and editor of the International Journal of Sex Research, who was not involved in the research.

"It's conceivable that people in developed countries have more information about sexuality. And they're also healthier," DeLamater said. "Being better informed, and being in better shape, they may be more able to maintain a satisfying sex life."


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: theusualsuspects
"It was funded by Pfizer, which makes the impotence drug Viagra."

Hmmmm...Sales of the "little blue pill" must be, Um, shrinking in Asia. ROFLMAO! :)

1 posted on 04/19/2006 4:40:09 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"Sex is more satisfying in countries where women and men are considered equal"

That's because the women gets to be on top half the time.
2 posted on 04/19/2006 4:42:06 PM PDT by Maximus of Texas (On my signal, bring back Paulab)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Why men marry bitchy women

http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/life/article.jsp?content=20060417_125297_125297


3 posted on 04/19/2006 4:44:20 PM PDT by Rakkasan1 (they love you in Mexico until you pay in pesos.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"The lowest satisfaction rate - 25.7 percent "

The lowest rate of liars - 25.7 percent.
4 posted on 04/19/2006 4:45:04 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

So, just how does one become a top authority on the subject?


5 posted on 04/19/2006 4:45:13 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Yes, bring equality into new relationships, gentlemen, and watch how excited she gets.

At leaving you.


6 posted on 04/19/2006 4:45:16 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
The lowest satisfaction rate - 25.7 percent - was reported in Japan.

Only because they didn't conduct the survey in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Sudan, Iraq, etc.

7 posted on 04/19/2006 4:45:25 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
SO...in Japan, women get turned off cuz men have sooo much power in the workplace, while Japanese women do not, right?

Maybe.

Much more likely is that Japanese men have virtually NO power in the home, where they are lorded over by their mother AND their wife.

Who wants to bone down with someone who mostly cuts you out of all the decisions about the kids, and is constantly scolding you?

No American man, and not most Japanese men, either.

8 posted on 04/19/2006 4:45:48 PM PDT by gaijin
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Bad study. There could be other reasons than equality contributing to low satisfaction e.g smaller penises.


9 posted on 04/19/2006 4:49:49 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: gaijin
Right you are. I knew a senior Japanese executive, one of those guys who only grunt at you when you say good morning...it was a good thing he had a hefty expense account because that dude's paycheck went home to the wife and he was on an allowance.

Studies such as this one sometimes draw conclusions on things they only think they know...

10 posted on 04/19/2006 4:54:27 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Maximus of Texas

New study:

"Sex is More Satisfying When Helen Thomas Isn't Around"

Another profound piece of scientific insight........


11 posted on 04/19/2006 5:00:35 PM PDT by Enchante (Democrats: "We are ALL broken and worn out, our party & ideas, what else is new?")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I wonder how this ties in with the studies that show Republicans as having generally more satisfying sex lives than Democrats.....


12 posted on 04/19/2006 5:03:47 PM PDT by Paradox (Removing all Doubt since 1998!)
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To: gaijin

It's not an issue of who has more power, whoever may have more or less of it, in Japan.

I think Japan is the shining example because there are actually two different languages in the country. The one spoken by those of the female gender, if compiled into an unabridged dictionary, would be about six times the size of the Beijing phone book. The corresponding dictionary for members of the male gender would be a very slim volume, but every single word in the text would be all-caps, bold type, and underlined.

The point of the article is that communication promotes intimacy, which in turn, promotes...

Or at least that's my take, sticking up for a fellow Wisconsite.


13 posted on 04/19/2006 5:06:04 PM PDT by MoJoWork_n (We don't know what it is we don't know)
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To: Billthedrill
...it was a good thing he had a hefty expense account because that dude's paycheck went home to the wife and he was on an allowance.

That's not unusual -- but he is likely also having his twice-per-year bonus (likely around 5 months of salary or so in total) deposited into an account that the wife doesn't have access to.

14 posted on 04/19/2006 5:07:15 PM PDT by snowsislander
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To: MoJoWork_n

Oops, Wisconsinite.


15 posted on 04/19/2006 5:07:19 PM PDT by MoJoWork_n (We don't know what it is we don't know)
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To: MoJoWork_n
If you're in sales in Japan, or a guy giving a speech, you have to kiss major, major a$$..! You have to tie yourself in rhetorical KNOTS..! Back-flips, triple-twists, all kinds of things guys don't have to do in the states...

And do you think Japanese women speak KEIGO to their lovers/husbands...?!

Bwaaaah hahahahahha!

The only time you speak gruffly --or this is me, at least-- is when you address an intimate, or someone lower down than you on the pecking order.

And I've heard pleeeeeenty of women bat new-hires around...whew...!

16 posted on 04/19/2006 5:12:43 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Explains a lot of Muslim behavior, now doesn't it?


17 posted on 04/19/2006 5:26:51 PM PDT by thoughtomator (That new ring around Uranus is courtesy of the IRS)
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To: mtbopfuyn
So, just how does one become a top authority on the subject?

Ask Maximus of T. He seems to be on top of this subject...

18 posted on 04/19/2006 5:55:56 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: gaijin
Who wants to bone down with someone

"I'll take "New Expressions I've Learned on FreeRepublic" for $100, Alex."

19 posted on 04/19/2006 6:06:46 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: 4rcane

A woman could be unsatisfied because the penis is too large, i.e. painful intercourse.


20 posted on 04/19/2006 6:16:54 PM PDT by twippo
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To: gaijin

Anata wa nihonjin desuka?


21 posted on 04/19/2006 6:18:04 PM PDT by twippo
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To: twippo

If I had a dollar for every time I heard that...


22 posted on 04/19/2006 6:23:32 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (Join the FR folding team!! http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120)
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To: ovrtaxt

How many dollars would you have?


23 posted on 04/19/2006 6:24:52 PM PDT by twippo
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To: twippo
Shhhh!!

(You're not supposed to ask that!)

24 posted on 04/19/2006 6:29:03 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (Join the FR folding team!! http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120)
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To: All

Other cultures may see it as strange that sexuality should be prolonged after a couple pass their childrearing years.


25 posted on 04/19/2006 6:33:08 PM PDT by twippo
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
YES DEAR!

Is there anything else that a man needs to learn?

26 posted on 04/19/2006 6:34:16 PM PDT by Hunble
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To: Maximus of Texas

####Sex is More Satisfying Where Genders Have More Equality####


Oh suuuure! That's why feminists are such hot babes!


27 posted on 04/19/2006 6:34:28 PM PDT by puroresu (Conservatism is an observation; Liberalism is an ideology)
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To: twippo
Other cultures may see it as strange that sexuality should be prolonged after a couple pass their childrearing years.

Please define "childrearing years" for a man. As far as I know, that ends at the moment of the man's death.

28 posted on 04/19/2006 6:38:19 PM PDT by Hunble
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Only because they didn't conduct the survey in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Sudan, Iraq, etc.

They tried to but "the party of the second part" could only answer:

BAAAAAA! BA AAAAAAAA!

29 posted on 04/19/2006 6:52:34 PM PDT by mississippi red-neck (You will never win the war on terrorism by fighting it in Iraq and funding it in the West Bank.)
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To: Maximus of Texas
The study appears in the April issue of the Archives of Sexual Behavior. It was funded by Pfizer, which makes the impotence drug Viagra.

No, no, there's no hidden agenda in this study. Not at all. (end sarcasm)

30 posted on 04/19/2006 7:26:40 PM PDT by 3catsanadog (When anything goes, everything does.)
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To: twippo

Gaikokujin, desu yo. Screename ga kaitearu, no yo ni desu ne, fufu!....Dakedou nagai aida koko ni sundeimasu kara, kantan na nihongo no hou wa amari mondai dewa arimasen, ne...


31 posted on 04/19/2006 7:47:08 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
The lowest satisfaction rate - 25.7 percent - was reported in Japan.

Probably because all the apartments in Tokyo are about 1 sq foot in size.

32 posted on 04/19/2006 7:50:26 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Hunble

Ah, but men don't live as long everywhere else in the world. A man fathering a child at 40 in America doesn't raise an eyebrow. In a third world nation, it means making his child fatherless when he dies at 45.


33 posted on 04/19/2006 9:18:57 PM PDT by twippo
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To: twippo

"Ah, but men don't live as long everywhere else in the world. A man fathering a child at 40 in America doesn't raise an eyebrow. In a third world nation, it means making his child fatherless when he dies at 45."

I don't think there are any places (at peace) where the average 40 year old can expect to be dead by 45.


34 posted on 04/19/2006 9:31:00 PM PDT by LiveBait
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To: gaijin

The first sentence: "I am a foreigner"

The rest, give me a few hours with my Kodansha and Collins-Shubun and I might be able to figure that out coherently. I still remeber the colors and the names of planets, and the breakdown of their meanings. Jupiter = Mokusei
= wood planet, Venus = Kinsei = gold planet.


35 posted on 04/19/2006 9:31:11 PM PDT by twippo (Watashi wa namae wa tsuippo desu)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I'll bet you the dummies asked girls, too.


36 posted on 04/19/2006 9:32:20 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
The Good Wife's Guide
Housekeeping Monthly - May 13, 1955

Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready on time for his return. This is a way of letting him know that you have be thinking about him and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they come home and the prospect of a good meal (especially his favorite dish) is part of the warm welcome needed.

Prepare yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so you'll be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your make-up, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh-looking. He has just been with a lot of work-weary people.

Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him. His boring day may need a lift and one of your duties is to provide it.

Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before your husband arrives. Run a dust cloth over the tables.

Over the cooler months of the year you should prepare and light a fire for him to unwind by. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order, and it will give you a lift too. After all, catering for his comfort will provide you with immense personal satisfaction.

Minimize all noise. At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise of the washer, dryer or vacuum. Encourage the children to be quiet.

Be happy to see him.

Greet him with a warm smile and show sincerity in your desire to please him.

Listen to him. You may have a dozen important things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first - remember, his topics of conversation are more important than yours.

Make the evening his. Never complain if he comes home late or goes out to dinner or other places of entertainment without you. Instead, try to understand his world of strain and pressure and his very real need to be at home and relax.

Your goal: To try and make sure your home is a place of peace, order, and tranquility where your husband can renew himself in body and spirit.

Don't greet him with complaints and problems.

Make him comfortable. Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or have him lie down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him.

Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice.

Don't ask him questions about his actions or question his judgment or integrity. Remember, he is the master of the house and as such will always exercise his will with fairness and truthfulness. You have no right to question him.

A good wife always knows her place.
37 posted on 04/19/2006 9:33:24 PM PDT by ItsForTheChildren
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To: LiveBait

There are a few, though they may not fit the criteria of being at peace:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762380.html
LOWEST LIFE EXPECTANCY2 (in years): 2005
1. Botswana 33.9
2. Swaziland 35.6
3. Angola 36.6
4. Lesotho 36.7
5. Zimbabwe 36.7
6. Malawi 37.0
7. Zambia 39.7
8. Mozambique 40.3
9. Central African Rep. 41.0
10. Niger 42.1

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, International Database.


38 posted on 04/19/2006 9:38:34 PM PDT by twippo (Watashi wa namae wa tsuippo desu)
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To: ItsForTheChildren
I'd leave a woman who treated me like that.

I want somebody who's my intellectual equal. Somebody that can challenge me to be a better person. Somebody who has passion and fire for life.
39 posted on 04/19/2006 9:42:06 PM PDT by bushbotbasher (Who the hell is BushBotBasher?)
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To: gaijin

Dude-san,

That's exactly my point. KEIGO, and all that modest ass-kissing, bowing and scraping, is about POWER. Which is disproportionately distributed between Japanese males and all of their inferiors (women, foreigners/gaijin, etc.)

That has nothing to do with Communication, which helps to create intimacy, which really does help to set the sheets on fire, especially in a long-term relationship.


40 posted on 04/20/2006 5:07:50 AM PDT by MoJoWork_n (We don't know what it is we don't know)
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To: ItsForTheChildren

Are you sure that's not the Stepford Programmer's Guide you quoted? Not Housekeeping Monthly? (Or maybe The Onion, a couple of months ago?)

You'd have to be a male with an infinitesemally small ego/*ick/sense of self-worth to even find that funny.


41 posted on 04/20/2006 5:20:06 AM PDT by MoJoWork_n (We don't know what it is we don't know)
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To: ItsForTheChildren

I've seen that one before. It's quite amusing. BUT, I actually DO some of these things for my husband. You catch more flies with honey...and all that!

It's amazing what a few kindnesses can do for your marriage. In turn, he does a lot of nice things for me, too! :)


42 posted on 04/20/2006 5:26:04 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: MoJoWork_n
You'd have to be a male with an infinitesemally small ego/*ick/sense of self-worth to even find that funny.

Damn. Lighten up, Francis.

43 posted on 04/20/2006 6:42:58 AM PDT by ItsForTheChildren
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To: MoJoWork_n
Keigo IS about power.

My point is that for all they way guys are cracked up to being lord masters of the workplace, they're complete prisoners at home. And I mean that they have much, muuuuuuch less power at home than US dudes, do.

This notion that Japanese women are completely repressed...?

I think the notion that deep-down, all Japanese women want to be AMERICAN women is based on western observations of the Japanese WORKPLACE. Or, it's a perception based on observations of marriages between western men and Japanese women (which is the general pattern, when east meets west). Or lastly --and most importantly for our times-- it is the flamboyantly immodest opinion of American, clip-haired lesbian femist writers with easy access to a fawning US media culture.

But I do not believe it's a perception based on broad, and honest observations of patterns in a Japanese household, which is what I think really counts.

44 posted on 04/20/2006 11:07:54 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: twippo
Gaikokujin, desu yo. Screename ga kaitearu, no yo ni desu ne, fufu!....Dakedou nagai aida koko ni sundeimasu kara, kantan na nihongo no hou wa amari mondai dewa arimasen, ne..

I'm a foreigner, as you can see based on my screename, haha! But for a long time I've lived here, so as far as basic Japanese conversation goes, I really don't have a problem, you know?

Gaikokujin, desu yo.
Foreigner, emphasis.

Screename ga kaitearu
Screenname is written

, no yo ni
in the manner of

desu ne, fufu!
donchya know, haha!

....Dakedou
But

nagai aida
for a longtime

koko ni sundeimasu kara
Here living therefore

, kantan na nihongo
easy Japanese

no hou
(makes it kinda polite)

wa amari
is not so much

mondai dewa arimasen, ne..
problem, you know...

45 posted on 04/20/2006 11:17:04 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: twippo

"There are a few, though they may not fit the criteria of being at peace:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762380.html
LOWEST LIFE EXPECTANCY2 (in years): 2005
1. Botswana 33.9
2. Swaziland 35.6
3. Angola 36.6
4. Lesotho 36.7
5. Zimbabwe 36.7
6. Malawi 37.0
7. Zambia 39.7
8. Mozambique 40.3
9. Central African Rep. 41.0
10. Niger 42.1

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, International Database."

I'm afraid you misunderstand those stats a bit. Those life expectancy numbers represent life expectancy at birth. The biggest variable in determining life expectancy at birth is infant mortality, which is very high in many places. Often in high-mortality populations life expectancy at 5 maybe be a full 10 or 15 years above life expectancy at birth, and by 40 the chances are pretty good that you'll live to see 60.


46 posted on 04/21/2006 1:27:45 PM PDT by LiveBait
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To: LiveBait

Good clarification.


47 posted on 04/21/2006 3:55:21 PM PDT by twippo (Gudmundsdottir/Drecker '08)
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