When It Comes to Guys, What’s Normal?
When It Comes to Guys, What’s Normal? By Bernice Kanner
ISBN: 0-312-34816-9
Published by St. Martin’s Press
Pages 63-68
Got Penis Envy?
The average man’s erect penis stretches 5.988 inches, about the size of a medium cup of coffee at Starbucks, while stubby ones measure in at 2.4 inches and lengthy ones at 11 inches. A third of men would have their penis enlarged if the procedure didn’t hurt or cost anything. More than four out of five guys have measured themselves. Sixteen percent consider themselves “well endowed”; 12 percent suspect they’re on the small size.
How Frisky Are You?
The average man has sex 138 times a year, spending 28 minutes a session on it, counting foreplay and the actual act (though with a long-standing partner the session lasts on average 16 minutes). The mean for married men (of all ages) is around six times a month: most would like it twice that often. The main reason for the disparity is no longer headaches: it’s fatigue. Sixteen percent of men claim they usually have multiple orgasms.
How Kinky?
Almost one in five guys use porn to spice up the sex act. Eight percent have tied up a partner or been tied up themselves. And 36 percent call their organs cutesy names.
Are You Preoccupied with Sex?
The average Joe spends 730 hours a year musing about sex – and 22 hours a year having it. Fifty-four percent say they think about sex at least once a day. Half were so desperate that they’ve had sex with someone for whom they had absolutely no feelings. Seventeen percent own up to having kept a dating partner past her expiration date for sex on a regular basis. Twenty-seven percent have done it with someone out of pity. Yet, 52 percent consider sex overrated: often they’d rather play soccer or go to the gym. Eleven percent can imagine going through life celibate and without regrets.
Ever Done It With Another Man?
By one count, 6.3 percent of man have – twice the percent of women who have had same sex relationships.
How Many Notches On Your Belt?
The average man has 17 lovers in his lifetime. Ninety-two percent have at least 10. Fifty-one percent can’t recall the first and last name of each sexual partner. Four percent have had sex with a total stranger.
Do You Take Matters Into Your Own Hands?
Nearly 85 percent of men in a relationship secretly pleasure themselves. Although masturbation causes no harm, four out of five men remember being told the terrors that would befall them if they “played with it” – that they’d become cross-eyed, blind, deaf, or crazy, that hair would grow on their hands, or that “it” would fall off.
Paid For It?
Nineteen percent of men reveal they have called a sex hotline. Fewer than one in three has ever hired a prostitute. Forty percent would consider having sex for money and half could imagine themselves getting paid to pose nude in a magazine.
Turned On By The Chase?
Sixty percent of men find the challenge stimulating, but 40 percent don’t think jumping through hoops is worth their time or effort. And they consider the person who makes them do it unworthy.
What Constitutes Infidelity?
Men have a fairly loose standard. Eighty-eight percent consider only their partner having intercourse with another man to qualify. Seventy-eight percent consider fondling another indicative of infidelity, while 51 percent consider kissing someone else an act of infidelity. Just shy of half rank phone sex in this class and 42 percent would similarly classify cybersex. Just one in three men would draw the line at holding hands with another and 17 percent would include lustfully thinking about another. Sixteen percent regard flirting as cheating and six percent – sensitive sorts – view looking at another in this category.
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