Skip to content
Search AI Powered

Latest Stories

New Survey Shows No One Is Having Nearly As Much Sex As We Think They Are

New Survey Shows No One Is Having Nearly As Much Sex As We Think They Are
Getty Images

A new survey just revealed that men really don't know what they're talking about when it comes to women and sex.


A new survey by Ipsos, a marketing research company, revealed that men and women are both way off when it comes to knowing about the opposite gender's sex life.


The survey was completed in October of 2017 and questioned 1,000-1,500 people in both the US and UK each. The age range of those surveyed was between 16-64.



In the US, women guessed that men had sex, on average, 13 times a month. The reality? Not even 4 times a month.


But even more off-kilter was that men guessed that women had sex 23 times a month. While women do have more sex than men, apparently, the average was just shy of 6 times a month.



People were also asked their thoughts on the average number of sexual partners.


Women weren't far off, guessing that men have an average of 18 sexual partners by the time they are 45-54. They were just one number shy, with the men's average being 19 partners by that age.


Again, men were way off-base saying that women had an average of 27 sexual partners by age 45-54. The real average was less than half of the guess, at 12 partners.



While the first reaction might be to chuckle at the obvious example of the "women are from Venus, men are from Mars" illustration, the results are very telling.



Chris Jackson, a spokesperson for Ipsos said,


"It's interesting that this misperception is so profound. It really illustrates the extent to which men really don't understand female sexuality,"


Hannah Brancato is a cofounder of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, a "creative activist collaboration to upset the culture of rape and promote a culture of consent". She said,

"It made sense that there would be a perception by men — male-identified people — that women are having more sex than they're having based on how we're sexualized in the media and pop culture. "In a rape culture, we're told that we don't have control over our bodies. Part of that control has to do with, in the case of this study, the assumptions that are made about women's sexuality."


People don't know whether to find it entertaining...















... or to be concerned.










The findings are to be published in a book called The Perils of Perception. See some of the results for yourself here.



Ipsos



Ipsos


H/T: BuzzFeed News, Daily Mail

More from Trending

Alex Cooper singing 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame'
@MBDChicago/Twitter (X)

'Call Her Daddy' Host Alex Cooper Gets Brutally Booed At Wrigley Field After Painfully Off-Key Singing

If there's one thing that all baseball fans can come together about, it's the importance of their traditions—and songs.

In the seventh inning at Wrigley Field during a match between the Cubs and the Cardinals, popular Call Her Daddy podcast host Alex Cooper was invited to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and brought two backup dancers with her.

Keep ReadingShow less
Linda Yaccarino
Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

X CEO Resigns Day After AI Chatbot Grok Praised Hitler In Alarming Series Of Antisemitic Tweets

Linda Yaccarino—the former NBC Universal executive who later took the reins at X—stepped down as CEO of billionaire Elon Musk's platform after two years on the job just a day after Grok, the platform's AI chatbot, went on antisemitic rants and openly praised Adolf Hitler.

Grok issued deeply antisemitic responses on Tuesday following a reported software update that encouraged the bot to embrace what developers described as the “politically incorrect.” Taking that directive to heart, Grok responded with a series of disturbing posts that included praise for Hitler and even a statement expressing its aspiration to become a “digital version” of the Nazi leader.

Keep ReadingShow less
Black and white photo of a falling spider.
Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash

People Divulge Their 'Rare' Phobias That People Refuse To Believe

I am a SEVERE claustrophobic.

I have struggled with this issue for decades.

Keep ReadingShow less
Ted Cruz
Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images

'The Onion' Rips Ted Cruz With Brutal Headline After Yet Another Vacation During Texas Disaster

The satirical news site The Onion had social media users cackling with its brutal headline mocking Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz for once again being out of the country when Texas was hit by another deadly natural disaster.

Cruz faced considerable national backlash after he flew to Cancún while millions of people went without food and water as a result of the February 2021 Texas power disaster. At least 246 people were killed directly or indirectly; some estimates suggested as many as 702 people were killed as a result of the crisis.

Keep ReadingShow less
Elon Musk and Grimes
Kevin Tachman/Getty Images for Vogue

Elon Musk's Ex Grimes Calls X Platform A 'Poison' And 'Theatre' After Social Media Hiatus

Claire Boucher—who performs and creates under her stage name Grimes, but prefers her birth name or just "C" offstage—recently returned to her musical persona's social media accounts after taking a hiatus for her own well-being.

Once extremely active, she noted on X in April:

Keep ReadingShow less