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1. The average frequency for sex is two times per week
A Durex survey outlined that the average number of times
people have sex is 103 times per year, 1.98 times per week and 0.28 times per
day! Incorporating sex into your life does have its benefits, including stress
relief and increased energy, but there is no right or wrong quota you need to
hit – we're not all bunny rabbits! Link
2. Heavier men last longer in bed
Put down the weights and grab a hamburger: Researchers in Turkey
have finished a yearlong study that correlated body mass index with male sexual
performance. Their findings may surprise you: Heavier men were able to make
love for an average of 7.3 minutes, while slender men lasted an average of 108
seconds. The study, published in Nature, showed that overweight men had higher
levels of the female estradiol hormone, which blocks male hormones and delays
the climax.Link
3. Oral sex could be a cure for morning sickness
One academic is proposing a cure for morning sickness that
some moms-to-be might find in bad taste — sperm. Gordon Gallup, a psychologist
at SUNY-Albany has a theory that pregnant women who are continually exposed to
the father's semen are less likely to suffer from AM nausea. Gallup, who
specializes in human reproductive competition and behavior, offers the theory
that expectant women become ill and vomit because their bodies are rejecting
the semen's genetic material as something foreign and unfamiliar. The theory
could feasibly quell their queasiness by ingesting the same sperm in order to
allow the body to build up a tolerance. The idea, while likely appealing to
dads, is only a theory and has yet to be tested.Link
4. Sex cures headaches
If you think sex can't be had due to a headache, how wrong
you are, at least according to headache specialist Dr. Vincent Martin.
Amazingly, it's just the opposite. Martin stated that the increase in serotonin
levels which happens during sex eases the pathways in the brain that can lead
to and sustain a headache.
Now, this isn't to say that sex is the answer to all
headaches or there would be massive tardiness in the corporate world every day.
However, with the act itself being quite a bit more powerful than popping a few
ibuprofen or aspirin, perhaps this new headache cure will be tested soon by,
well, many.Link
5. Scratching your ankle feels as good as sex
The old phrase ‘You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' may
need updating. The ankle has overtaken the back as the most satisfying spot to
scratch, according to researchers at the Wake Forest School of Medicine in
North Carolina. In the study, reported in the British Journal of Dermatology,
healthy volunteers were made to itch on the forearm, ankle and back by rubbing
them with cowhage, a plant with tiny hairs that irritate the skin. Professor
Francis McGlone, a member of the International Forum for the Study of Itch,
said, "It was interesting that the ankle was the itchiest site and that
the most pleasure came from scratching it, because the back has been well-known
as a preferred site for scratching."Link
6. Men think about sleep & food as much as sex
Men think about sex every seven seconds, right? Not
according to a new study that finds men ponder sleep and food as much as they
do sex. The study found that the median number of thoughts about sex by
college-age men was 18 times a day to women's 10 times a day. But the men also
thought about food and sleep proportionately more.Link
7. Finger length may indicate penis size
Hold up your right hand. Are your index and ring fingers
mismatched? Congratulations, you're more likely than men with matching digits
to have a long penis. A smaller ratio between the second and fourth fingers is
linked to a longer stretched penis size, researchers report in the Asian
Journal of Andrology. The findings go beyond providing a new finger ratio-based
pick-up line for men in bars, however; researchers say that a quick look at a
man's fingers could reveal his exposure to male hormones in the womb, providing
a hint about his risk for hormone-driven diseases like prostate cancer.Link
8. Female orgasm is a form of natural selection
Orgasm is an evolutionary function of nature. In 1967, a man
named Desmond Morris wrote a controversial book called "The Naked
Ape." The book looked at the female orgasm, suggesting that its purpose
was to not only encourage interest in sexual activity, but also to promote
exhaustion to encourage her to remain in the horizontal position (preventing
sperm from leaking out). He also suggested that women's difficulty in attaining
orgasm with men was, in fact, a form of natural selection. Only the most
patient, caring, and imaginative men (considered preferred traits) would have
the best chance of eliciting an orgasm, and thus successfully conceiving a
child.Link
9. Vibrators were used as medical treatment during the 19th
century
According to the Museum of Sex, the vibrator was originally
used as a medicinal treatment for female "hysteria" during the 19th
century. The vibrator-induced orgasms helped doctors dissipate hysteria's
anxiety-related symptoms.Link
10. 25% of men over 65 use the magic blue pill
According to the National Institute of Diabetes and
Digestive and Kidney Diseases, approximately 5 percent of 40-year-old men and
between 15 to 25 percent of 65-year-old men experience erectile dysfunction.
Another interesting fact about middle age sex is that 46
percent of people over 50 claim to have sex once a week. 85 per cent feel that
sex at a more mature age is less pressurized than when they were teens or young
adults, suggesting that sex can get better with age (like many things in life).Link
