Your subject made me think this was from a HP community before I kept reading. Seeing it was from this comm and reading about a sexual Ted Turner definitely made up for it.
I think I'll read that article on the health benefits on promiscuity now.
Another possibility that springs to my mind is that it might be that a very small number of very promiscuous women weren't found by the survey (or, perhaps less probably, a small number of strictly monogamous or virgin males - I say less probably because you can only drag a number down so much, but you can drag a number up much further).
What would be interesting would be to see the distribution of the responses. Then we might be able to draw some conclusions.
I seem to remember hearing that boys are wicked horny in the 14-20 range (I can testify in favor of this), but that for women, it often picks up somewhere around 30-35.
I did laugh out loud reading this wonderful articlebec_87rbAugust 16 2007, 17:10:54 UTC
YAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA... Funny article, thanks for posting it.
People lie on self-report surveys, and they lie in a major ginormous way about sex. Duh. Has anybody ever actually read the Kinsey Report, or any those major sexual activity assays? One subject reported having 50 orgasms a week. *moment of silence to think about that*
Okay, how many of you think this man was lying? How many of you think he was laughing his @ss off when he wrote "50" in the little space on the survey form?
*holds up hand*
What does that do to the mean, x number of jokers reporting they came 7 times a day, 7 days a week? Yeah. And considering that men routinely tell you they are an inch taller than they are, and women routinely tell you they are 5-10 pounds thinner than they are, what we are actually measuring in self-report sex surveys is the differential response of the genders to social pressures. It's fantasy to think that a huge percentage of subjects are not lying at least a little on these
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Re: I did laugh out loud reading this wonderful articlegracewandererAugust 17 2007, 19:49:19 UTC
So in other words, if my number of *actual* sex partners reflects the average *reported* number of sex partners, I can rest knowing that I've finally made up for all the time I lost being Mormon?
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I think I'll read that article on the health benefits on promiscuity now.
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What would be interesting would be to see the distribution of the responses. Then we might be able to draw some conclusions.
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I seem to remember hearing that boys are wicked horny in the 14-20 range (I can testify in favor of this), but that for women, it often picks up somewhere around 30-35.
Whatever. You're on my friends page now.
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Funny article, thanks for posting it.
People lie on self-report surveys, and they lie in a major ginormous way about sex. Duh. Has anybody ever actually read the Kinsey Report, or any those major sexual activity assays? One subject reported having 50 orgasms a week. *moment of silence to think about that*
Okay, how many of you think this man was lying?
How many of you think he was laughing his @ss off when he wrote "50" in the little space on the survey form?
*holds up hand*
What does that do to the mean, x number of jokers reporting they came 7 times a day, 7 days a week? Yeah. And considering that men routinely tell you they are an inch taller than they are, and women routinely tell you they are 5-10 pounds thinner than they are, what we are actually measuring in self-report sex surveys is the differential response of the genders to social pressures. It's fantasy to think that a huge percentage of subjects are not lying at least a little on these ( ... )
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