Sex 149 Times a Year Is UK Average?

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[vannrox]

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Sex 149 Times a Year Is UK Average?

Mon Nov 25,11:02 AM ET

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LONDON (Reuters) - Britons have sex more often than Americans and Spaniards, but are outdone between the sheets by the French, Dutch, Danes and Canadians, a survey by condom manufacturer Durex found Monday.

The Durex Global Sex survey revealed that Britons make love an average of 149 times a year, pipped only by couples in France (167), the Netherlands (158), Denmark (152) and Canada (150).

Those taking their love-making at a more relaxed pace included Americans (138 times a year), New Zealanders, (135) and the Spanish, who limped in at an annual love rate of just 121.

Some 3,500 people from the UK took part in an online survey organized by Durex which polled 50,000 people worldwide.

Almost four in 10 of UK respondents admitted they had had unprotected sex with a new partner in the last 12 months, despite more than two-thirds believing AIDS (news - web sites) is a serious problem in Britain.

The young are putting themselves most at risk of sexual infection, with 46 percent of UK respondents aged 18-20 saying they had had sex without a condom with a new partner in the last year.

Durex said it would release full details of the global survey Tuesday.

[vannrox]

I'm sure that these figures would vary by couple age and other factors more limiting than political boundries only.

[lelio]

Every other day from a culture that gave us the phrase "No sex please, we're British"? Yeah right. I bet most of these reports come from drunken football fans that are making up stories.

[Mark Felton]

"When asked in the survey, the British stated their preference to re-usable condoms"

[L.N. Smithee]

The Durex Global Sex survey revealed that Britons make love an average of 149 times a year, pipped only by couples in France (167), the Netherlands (158), Denmark (152) and Canada (150).

Which lends credence to what I have said for years: Nations with "more healthy attitudes towards sex" usually are societies that don't produce much of any worth.

That being said -- as a hockey fan, thank God for Canada.

[goldstategop]

Hmmm... how do they know how many times a year people make love? I gotta check for hidden cameras in my bedroom.

[MadIvan]

"When asked in the survey, the British stated their preference to re-usable condoms"

No.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

I posted this story earlier in the day because I was hoping to nip it in the bud. Oh well.

Apparently it was a survey.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Every other day from a culture that gave us the phrase "No sex please, we're British"? Yeah right. I bet most of these reports come from drunken football fans that are making up stories.

Drunken football fans who fill out surveys?

There is much to tear apart in the survey, but insulting the British does not help your case.

Ivan

[gitmo]

Did they include Clinton in the US survey? I think not.

[captnorb]

they're only talking about Homosexuals....Probably 70-80% of the survey

[MadIvan]

they're only talking about Homosexuals....Probably 70-80% of the survey

Great, the "all Englishmen are poofters" crowd rears its ugly head.

Again, no. I am British and I am perfectly straight.

Ivan

[tet68]

Young man, you are the only one in my class that admits to
having sex only once a year.

How can you be so happy about it?

TONIGHTS THE NIGHT! TONIGHTS THE NIGHT!

[Holofernes]

"Britons make love an average of 149 times a year, pipped only by couples in France (167)"

.... so there's a finally a _good_ thing associated with being French? Always a first I guess!

[tet68]

"rears its ugly head. "

Oooo I love a witty rejoinder.

Touching cloth with that one.

Hehehe.

[MadIvan]

Has nothing to do with a rejoinder - it has everything to do with a dragged out, behind the pub fight, involving smashing the opponent in the face till their teeth are knocked out and they're weeping for Mummy.

The reaction this kind of article provokes is almost predictable. Ah well.

Regards, Ivan

[keyesguy]

High unemployment does have its advantages I guess.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

.... so there's a finally a _good_ thing associated with being French?

Apparently French women surrender almost as quickly as French men.

[goldstategop]

More free time with the missus. LOL!!!

[Mercat]

I'm recalling the great scene in The Meaning of Life by Monte Python where we've just listened to "Every Sperm is Sacred" from the Catholic couple with 80 children and now we shift to the Protestant couple. The husband is saying that "These Catholics, they think that every time you have sex, you have to have a baby." The wife, who is obviously starved for sex, says, "But we have two children." LOL

[tet68]

Hey, it's more than us Americans, although it's true ours IS
with 138 DIFFERENT people.