Sad that the average time is so small. Men really need to practice more, I would say...
Funny, how deeply programed we are to be so obsessed for five minutes of pleasure?
Or, maybe not so funny...
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Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 16:26:59 -0700
From: NHNE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Study: Length Of Time People Spend Having Sex
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WATCH THE CLOCK, DARLING BRITS LAST LONGEST AT SEX
By Ben Dowell
The Sunday Times - Britain
May 22, 2005
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1622297,00.html
A scientific study to be published this week will suggest that British
men
are world leaders at sex, at least when they are measured against the
clock.
But that is not saying much considering that most men in other
countries
were at best five-minute wonders.
After equipping hundreds of couples in various countries with
stopwatches,
researchers have for the first time amassed accurate data on the length
of
time that people spend having sex.
Across all the countries studied, the average time for actual
lovemaking was
5.4 minutes. Around that figure, however, the researchers found
considerable
variations related to age and nationality.
While British men took on average 7.6 minutes, the typical American
took 7
minutes, while the Spanish lasted 5.8 minutes and the Dutch 5.1
minutes.
The Turks produced the biggest surprise: on average they spend just 3.7
minutes at it.
In all the countries studied there was no significant difference in the
timings whether the men were using condoms or not.
In the research, to be published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine,
British
and Dutch scientists studied 500 couples aged over 18 in the five
countries.
"Sexual events were stopwatch-timed over a four-week period and
recorded,"
says Dr Marcel Waldinger, a leading neuro-psychiatrist based at Utrecht
University who led the research.
The findings also revealed how the time from start to finish of sex
decreased with age, from an average of 6.5 minutes for men aged 18-30
to 4.3
minutes for those over 51.
The researchers say the findings indicate that male sexual functioning
varies significantly between healthy individuals, and there is no easy
definition of what should be classified as average sexual performance
or
premature ejaculation.
"The wide range among normal men points to a physical rather than a
psychological cause for premature ejaculation," said Waldinger.
"The results will help to lift the taboo over premature ejaculation
because
they show that men are indeed different from one another."
Just why there are significant national differences is not clear and
the
researchers plan bigger studies and yet more research to find an
explanation.
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