According to their own statements, men in Germany have already slept with an average of ten partners in their lives, while women have only slept with five partners. This is the result of a representative study on sexual behaviour in Germany, which has now been published in the “Deutsche Ärzteblatt”. 2524 people aged 14 and over were surveyed by questionnaire.
Ten to five? Even though men are more likely to see themselves as seducers and women as difficult to conquer, the ratio seems surprisingly high and is statistically difficult to explain, just like porno chileno. These differences are not new: The researchers around the first author Julia Haversath from the Technical University of Braunschweig write that such discrepancies have already arisen in sexual research to date. Psychologists from Hildesheim, Jena and Hanover were also involved.
People orchestrate their gender roles
Where do the differences come from? The respondents presumably cheated, the psychologists say, but they express it more scientifically. “Self-esteem distortions and gender-specific response behaviour” could have contributed to the different claims. Arne Dekker from the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), who was not involved in the study, has a similar explanation:”They are also staging their gender roles,”he says.
Eight percent of the men surveyed have already gone to prostitutes: Some men believe that it is attractive and socially recognised to have many sex partners, whereas the opposite is often the case for women. Dekker admits that men allegedly have twice as many partners in bed as women have partners, but that it is “a big difference”. “You’d think it was supposed to open up somehow.” One of the statistical factors could be that eight percent of the men interviewed have already gone to prostitutes. On average, this group had sexual contact with four prostitutes. The researchers also did not ask whether the participants had sex abroad.
More women than men report homosexual contacts
In addition to the sexual self-image of those interviewed, who are on average 48.5 years old, the study also offers further insights from the beds of the Republic. Most people – hardly surprisingly – have had experience with vaginal intercourse: 88 percent of men and 89 percent of women have already had such sex. According to the data, 56 percent of men and 48 percent of women were satisfied orally.
The vast majority of men (86 percent) and women (82 percent) stated to be heterosexual. 5 percent of men and 8 percent of women have had same-sex contacts. One percent each stated to be purely homosexual. Some did not provide any information or stated that none of these categories applied. The sexually most active group is that of the 25-29 year olds. At this age, men say that they have an average of 60 vaginal intercourse per year, and women 47 times. Thereafter, the incidence is steadily decreasing: men between 50 and 59 years of age have sex 34 times a year, women 22 times a year.