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Other people are having way, way less sex than you think they are - C C - Aug 16, 2018
https://theconversation.com/other-people-are-having-way-way-less-sex-than-you-think-they-are-101153
EXCERPT: Research shows we think young people have a lot more sex than they do in reality – and men have a particularly skewed view of the sex lives of young women.
As part of Ipsos’ long-running studies on misperceptions, to be released in a new book, The Perils of Perception, we asked people in Britain and the US to guess how often people aged 18-29 in their country had sex in the past four weeks.
The average guess about young men in both countries is that they had sex fourteen times in the last month, when the actual number is just five in Britain and four in the US, according to detailed surveys of sexual behaviour.
Our guess would mean that, on average, young men are having sex every other day – around 180 times a year – compared with the more mundane reality of around 50 times. But that’s not the most remarkable error in our guessing. Men are even more wildly wrong when they guess about young women’s sex lives, in both the US and Britain.
Men think British and American young women are having an incredible amount of sex – 22 times a month in Britain, and 23 times a month in the US. These guesses would be the equivalent of the average young woman having sex every weekday, plus two or three times on one special day each month. In reality, it’s around five times.
Why we get it so wrong
As with so many of our misperceptions, the explanations for this will be both how we think and what we’re told. [...] Because we don’t have access to very much real-life comparative information, we turn to other “authoritative” sources: playground or locker room chat, dubious surveys, salacious media coverage and porn. These provide extreme examples and dodgy anecdotes that distort our views of reality....
MORE: https://theconversation.com/other-people-are-having-way-way-less-sex-than-you-think-they-are-101153
RE: Other people are having way, way less sex than you think they are - RainbowUnicorn - Aug 16, 2018
(Aug 16, 2018 07:50 PM)C C Wrote: https://theconversation.com/other-people-are-having-way-way-less-sex-than-you-think-they-are-101153
EXCERPT: Research shows we think young people have a lot more sex than they do in reality – and men have a particularly skewed view of the sex lives of young women.
As part of Ipsos’ long-running studies on misperceptions, to be released in a new book, The Perils of Perception, we asked people in Britain and the US to guess how often people aged 18-29 in their country had sex in the past four weeks.
The average guess about young men in both countries is that they had sex fourteen times in the last month, when the actual number is just five in Britain and four in the US, according to detailed surveys of sexual behaviour.
Our guess would mean that, on average, young men are having sex every other day – around 180 times a year – compared with the more mundane reality of around 50 times. But that’s not the most remarkable error in our guessing. Men are even more wildly wrong when they guess about young women’s sex lives, in both the US and Britain.
Men think British and American young women are having an incredible amount of sex – 22 times a month in Britain, and 23 times a month in the US. These guesses would be the equivalent of the average young woman having sex every weekday, plus two or three times on one special day each month. In reality, it’s around five times.
Why we get it so wrong
As with so many of our misperceptions, the explanations for this will be both how we think and what we’re told. [...] Because we don’t have access to very much real-life comparative information, we turn to other “authoritative” sources: playground or locker room chat, dubious surveys, salacious media coverage and porn. These provide extreme examples and dodgy anecdotes that distort our views of reality....
MORE: https://theconversation.com/other-people-are-having-way-way-less-sex-than-you-think-they-are-101153
Quote:The average guess about young men in both countries is that they had sex fourteen times in the last month, when the actual number is just five in Britain and four in the US, according to detailed surveys of sexual behaviour.
usa once per week ?
that may be a mean but it is not a norm.
the norm would be about once every 3 weeks, maybe 2 weeks
studys have shown that sexual activity is vastly greater in some than others which is often hundreds of percent more than the mode.
mode female sex is slightly less than mode male sex because of the number of highly sexually active women who have one night stand first sexual encounters with men who only have sex once.
where as the female has sex maybe 4 times.
there is soo much bullshit and propoganda being spewed to deliberately skew the results you cant use 1 study to get an idea.
you need to read many different studys from different countrys over decades and follow social trends.
what is also critically important is social culture of slut shaming.
women always under report and men always over report number of sexual encounters.
RE: Other people are having way, way less sex than you think they are - Syne - Aug 17, 2018
(Aug 16, 2018 11:33 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: mode female sex is slightly less than mode male sex because of the number of highly sexually active women who have one night stand first sexual encounters with men who only have sex once.
where as the female has sex maybe 4 times.
there is soo much bullshit and propoganda being spewed to deliberately skew the results you cant use 1 study to get an idea.
you need to read many different studys from different countrys over decades and follow social trends.
what is also critically important is social culture of slut shaming.
women always under report and men always over report number of sexual encounters.
True story.
RE: Other people are having way, way less sex than you think they are - RainbowUnicorn - Aug 17, 2018
i wanted to add
i have known people who are celibate right through to a different sexual partner every weekend.
which group is larger ? men or women ?
its about the same mostly.
it balances out by mid to late 20s as men start to have fewer different sexual partners in their late 20s women start to have more.
only by a small amount. this small movement in the frequency balances it out to be roughly equal with women having maybe 5% more variety, yet frequency of sex is a completely different issue.
as men become more honest about how much sex they are not having and women become less punished for having sex i imagine it should ballance out fairly equally.