Since Alfred Kinsey’s extensive 1930s and 40s study of human sexuality there has been only one other comprehensive sex study measuring how often people frug. That study went down in 1992 when Charles and Di split, Bush vomited into the Japanese prime minister’s lap, and hardly anyone used the internet or Viagra to get laid. But a closer look at a large sex study published this week in the Journal of Sexual Medicine shows just how much has changed since ’92 — namely, more people enjoy oral and anal sex than ever, people masturbate less as they age, and those who need to use condoms the most aren’t.
Almost every guy jerks-off frequently and throughout their entire lives. Surprisingly, 25 to 29 year old men jerk off more than teens and after age 29 men jerk off less and less as they age.
Although women masturbate about 20% less often than men, they do continue to excite themselves well into their 40s, but rub ones out less often after that.
Only the elderly and the sick spank it less often. Married men and women don’t jerk off as often either, but only because they’re busy having actual intercourse (lucky bastids).
About five to nine percent of men aged 18 to 59 have done oral with another dude in the last year. By the time men are age 59, 15% of them have gone to third base with a guy. Overall, men consistently prefer blowing each other to bottoming.
On the female side, about 15 to 17% of all women aged 20 to 39 have had oral sex with another woman. But even though more women try cunnilingus in their youth, not all of them become lifelong lesbians as the number of women eating box lowers with age.
The study also reveals that not all people who have same-sexual experiences identify as gay, lesbian or bi. That explains str8 guys doing gay-for-pay porn, confirms the assumption that people experiment with homosexuality earlier in their lives, and suggests that just because someone identifies as straight doesn’t mean they haven’t ever tried gay sex.
The study determined who’s topping and bottoming but not other forms of buttplay like salad tossing and fingering… prudes. 40% of men aged 25-59 say they’ve popped it in someone’s pooper. But only about 10% of all men have bottomed, which means that the rest of the 30% are probably straight guys going anal with their girlfriends (after all, sodomy is nature’s contraceptive).
According to one analysis, in 1992 10% of women in their 20s and 30s admitted having anal sex in the past year; in 2010 that number has doubled to more than 20%. One-third of the 2010 women say they’ve gone anal in the last month. Sadly, since the study excludes sex toys we can’t say how many women have bottomed for other women, but the increasing number of bottoming ladies only supports my argument that women should teach each other about anal sex.
Although gay men consistently use condoms more than straight men, only 61.5% of gay men and 40% of bi men use condoms for anal sex with men. When sliding into a brown-eyed girl, bi guys use condoms 0% of the time (WHOA! What gives?). College educated folk, people with casual sex partners, and single women use condoms far more often than people with only high school degrees, partnered couples, or women in relationships. Oddly, the study didn’t bother asking if anyone used condoms during oral sex. As far as I can tell, almost no one does and obviously the researchers didn’t consider the importance of safe oral sex either. That’s strange seeing as sexual clinicians still call oral sex a “low-risk activity.”
Because the condom study didn’t go into dental dams and other safety measures lesbians take when going oral or anal, we didn’t get any safe-sex sapphic stats about. Also the overall data doesn’t take sexual motivations (such as drugs, cheating, or hate-fucking), sexual dysfunction, queer identity, use of sex toys, HIV or STD rates into account, which it would need in order to paint a full picture of the good, bad, and ugly of our sex lives. You can read all three studies here for yourself. That way if the next Alfred (or Alfreda) Kinsey is reading this, you know where to begin your research.
Sceth
The pic for this article [on the main page] was taken from a sweet queer romantic anime called Junjou Romantica. I applaud the classiness of that decision.
Mike in Asheville, nee "in Brooklyn"
Really, only one other sex survey than the Kinsey Reports?
I guess that will be news to Masters & Johnson and the thousands of researchers world-wide who study sexual relations.
Queerty, you do yourselves a great disservice not having an editor (and a copy editor for all the misspellings and grammatical errors). Blatantly erroneous statements of facts, such as since Kinsey “there has been only one other comprehensive sex study”, completely undermines your credibility about the entire article and raises questions about accuracy of all posts.
And BTW, the Kinsey Institute, since the publication of the original reports on Male Sexuality (1948) and Female Sexuality (1953), have published hundreds of reports over the years on Human Sexuality.
Ronbo
The most suprising result: Carpal Tunnel is exit 69 on the electron superhighway!
Tom
Some people may be finding themselves masturbating even more now, if this story turns into prison time: http://bit.ly/9UOVtp
Alex
As a bi guy who has used condoms for anal about 70 percent of the time, that stat on bi guys never using condoms sounds *fishy*.
everfresh
I’m addicted to oral sex, suck off around 3 different guys everyday on average. I go to sex clubs nearly every night and continue the sucking process. Once I noticed this cute looking guy staring at my bulge in a nightclub and I walked up to him, and without saying a word, unzipped his pants, then sucked for all it was worth.
mikey
i thought the title said more men prefer blowing to bottoming, which doesn’t say much about that, anyway, frot is the best sex i’ve had with a man