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Research shows we think young adults have actually far more intercourse than they are doing in reality – and men have view that is particularly skewed of sex lives of young females.
The perils of Perception, we asked people in Britain and the US to guess how often people aged 18-29 in their country had sex in the past four weeks as part of Ipsos’ long-running studies on misperceptions, to be released in a new book.
The guess that is average teenage boys both in countries is they had intercourse fourteen times within the last few thirty days, if the real number is simply five in Britain and four in the usa, relating to step-by-step studies of intimate behavior.
Our guess will mean that, an average of, teenage boys are receiving intercourse almost every other day – around 180 times a year – contrasted with the greater mundane truth of around 50 times. [Read more…]