Big lesson: never assume anything.
L B Shriver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
L B Shriver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- In [email protected], Robert Gimbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sad that the average time is so small. Men really need to practice more, I would say...
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I assume you mean "with a partner".
L B S
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> Funny, how deeply programed we are to be so obsessed for five minutes of pleasure?
> Or, maybe not so funny...
>
> L B Shriver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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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