





Summary:

– Japanese people have the least sexual intercourse in the world. Only 24% people in Japan feel happy with their sex lives, which is the second lowest after Chinese people. Greek people have the most sexual intercourse in a year.

– It looks that as people feel less happy about their sex lives, the number of sexual intercourse declines (Figure 2).

– People in Europe have more sexual intercourse than people in Asia in general. One of the reasons for it seems religions. Over 50% of people in Indonesia encourage young people to abstain from sexual intercourse until they are married due to their Muslim culture. The belief or culture affected by a religion reduces the number of sexual intercourse in some degree.

– The most common place where adults have had sexual intercourse outside of their own beds is in a car.

– People who have sex more frequently may be more likely to have the experience of having sexual intercourse in their cars. There is a correlation between the frequency of sexual intercourse and the percentage of people who have had sexual intercourse in a car.

Young people should practice safe sexual intercourse

Durex carried out a sex survey and asked more than 317,000 people from 41 countries about sexual intercourse. This survey is a bit old and the survey results may change if they did a survey now, but 2005 Global Sex Survey Results by Durex shows still interesting facts.

Figure 1 above shows the result of research for things that young people should be encouraged to do about sexual intercourse by country. Most people in the world think young people should practice safer sex.

In the countries circled in red in Figure 1, Indonesia, India, Singapore, China, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, there are relatively more people who think young people should be encouraged to abstain from sex until they are married. They are all Asian countries and the reason why people think young people should refrain from sexual intercourse seems their religions. People in those countries have several religions such as Islam and Buddhism. Their religious beliefs set a certain standards for sexual activities and restrict young people from having sex until they get married.

Japanese people are unhappy with their sex lives and have the least number of sex in the world

In Figure 2, blue bars are for frequency of sex by country. The yellow line shows the proportion of people who are happy with their sex lives. Greece earns the top honor for the amount of sex in the world.

Western countries tend to have more sexual intercourse than Asian countries. The religious belief that I mentioned above may be a reason for the tendency. Also, the happiness you get from sexual intercourse may have an influence on the frequency of sexual intercourse. Although a strong correlation is not observed between the number of sex and the percentage of people with happy sex lives, as people feel less happy about their sex lives, the number of sexual activities looks to go down.

Japanese people are unhappy with their sex lives and have the least amount of sex in the world, less than once a week on average. Some people say it’s because they work too hard and less time for leisure activity. Other people say that Japanese porn industries cannot be ignored for the data of less sexual intercourse. They say that many people in Japan are hooked on porn related fantasy or fake intimacy and less willing to make a real relationship with a human. It seems that going toward pornography and virtual fantasies makes people in Japan have less desire to have sexual intercourse.

Places where you’ve had sexual intercourse

Figure 3 illustrates the places people have had sexual intercourse outside of their own bedroom. It was surprising to me that about 50% of people in the world have had sexual intercourse in a car. People might feel more intimacy when a couple is in a car or a hot sex scene in a movie may affect the people’s behaviors.

Those who like having sexual intercourse may choose particularly a car as a place for sex

Lastly, I analyzed the survey data to see if there is a relation between the people who have had sexual intercourse in a car and the total number of sex in Figure 4. You can see a relatively strong correlation between those two variables. The coefficient of determination is 0.48, which is high. The more sexual intercourse a person has, the more likely the person has the experience of sex in a car before or vice versa. In Figure 3, the second most common place to have sexual intercourse after their own beds was Toilets (Bathroom). Similar analysis was done for Toilet data, but the correlation was weak with the coefficient of determination 0.01. Those who like having sexual intercourse may choose especially a car as an environment for sex.





