By the Numbers

If she were life-sized, Barbie’s measurements would be: 39-23-33.

Everyday, 200 million couples around the world have sex, which figures to be over 2000 couples at any given moment.

Women with a Ph.D. are twice as likely to be interested in a one-night stand than those with only a Bachelor’s degree.

Going blind is the least of your worries: It’s estimated by some that the practice of autoerotic asphyxiation (temporarily suffocating yourself while masturbating) takes the lives of 250 to 1000 men and women a year.

Of the 25 reported cases of penis fracture, 16 agreed that the cause of their condition was due to over-enthusiastic masturbation. *

The average sperm donor makes $4,000 to $5,000 a year. Not a bad wage for something that 97% of all men admit to doing for free. The other 3%, popular theory holds, are lying.

14% of males said that they didn’t enjoy sex the first time they attempted it.

41% of women say they enjoyed sex their first time.

Locker room talk aside, apparently only 3 out of 1000 men are well-endowed enough (or at least flexible enough) to fellate themselves to orgasm.

Women who’ve spent a night in jail are almost 50% more likely to have had more than ten lovers in the past year than women with no criminal record.

Black women are 50% more likely than white women to have an orgasm when they have sex.

In 1990 more than six thousand people reported injuries related to feminine hygiene products. Apparently, those instructions and diagrams provided in each box just aren’t enough for some people.

Men who are castrated live an average of 13 years longer than their uncut counterparts.

Freud may have had something there with that cigar theory as 70% of women who smoke have had more than four lovers in the last year, while 60% of non-smokers had none.

In case you’re counting, there are 5 calories in a teaspoon of semen.

And for those who like to exercise along with dieting, the average love session burns about 100 calories.

Women who read romance novels tend to have twice as many lovers over the same period as those who don’t.

30% of women over the age of 80 still have sexual intercourse either with their spouse or boyfriends.

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Unfortunately, one in three men over the age of 60 will suffer from impotence.

According to doctors with better eyesight and more time than we have, the average ejaculate contains as much as 787 million sperm.

About 1% of the adult female population are able to achieve orgasm solely through breast stimulation.

A recent survey found that exchanging wedding vows knocks a whole nine minutes off the average time spent making love. Married couples get it over and done within 16 minutes flat while cohabiting couples spend 25 minutes on average in the act.

Some people can’t pass up a sale: Napoleon’s withered penis was purchased at a 1969 auction for $38,000.

Fellatio ranks as the number one sexual act desired by heterosexual men. Next, I’ll tell you something you don’t know.

In an average man’s semen, approximately 10% are abnormal.

*Footnote: While you may ask how it’s possible for something without an actual bone to get fractured, rest assured that penile fracture does indeed happen and in fact there are even leading experts in this particular field. The penis, while containing no bone, does get rigid, and things that get rigid can break. The corpora cavernosa, or the part of the inside that gets filled with blood to make a penis erect gets stretched pretty thin, and any sudden jolt in the wrong place and you could pop like a balloon (as well as damaging your urethra and the outer sheath of your penis). 

How can you tell when fracture has occurred? Well, the tell-tale sign is a loud cracking sound, which should be your clue to get to a hospital ASAP. In the old days, treatment was usually a splint, icepacks and drugs to suppress an erection (kinda anti-Viagra), though to be honest, these treatments usually resulted in permanent disfigurement. Nowadays, repairing the damage surgically is the most common option. In case the above hasn’t encouraged you from being a bit more careful, here’s one particular account: “A 26 year-old male… experienced sudden acute pain and prompt detumescence during vigorous coital activity. The episode was associated with an audible cracking sound [and] his penis became grossly swollen.”

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