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My wife never seems to want to have sex as often as I do. Is that normal?
One study during the Seventies asked men how frequently they desired sex--and we doubt things have changed that much since. The results: 13 percent wanted sex more than once a day; 26 percent wanted it five to seven times a week; 35 percent wanted it three or four times a week; 18 percent wanted it once or twice a week; 6 percent wanted it two or three times a month; 2 percent wanted it once a month or less. (The rest of the sample was dead.) A separate study asked women how frequently they desired sex: 30 percent wanted it once a day or more; 16 percent wanted it three to five times a week; 16 percent wanted it two to three times a week; 15 percent, once or twice a week; 1 percent, three or four times a month; 7 percent simply answered "often" and 9 percent said it varied. We tend to rely on numbers when they show the variety of human sexual behavior, not when they indicate norms. Why would anyone want to be normal?
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I'm 19 and I think about sex all the time. Am I obsessed?
You're normal. Sexual thoughts are so common they can't be called an obsession. Studies cited in The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex asked men, "Has sex crossed your mind in the last five minutes?" Half of those in their late teens said yes. Fourteen percent said that sex was the central focus of their thoughts. By the age of 40, only 20 percent of men said they had thought about sex during the past five minutes. Aging's not pretty.
Dr. Paul Cameron at the University of Louisville once tested about 3100 subjects and determined that the idea of sex crosses the healthy young mind every ten minutes. Hmm. Our watch is a little slow today.
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