Oct 4th 2010 By Jeremy Taylor

Oral and Anal Sex Are Becoming More Popular

Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.

According to a new national study, "experimental" sex is more prevalent among Americans today than it was in 1994.

The Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University surveyed 5,865 people between age 14 and 94 on their sexual activities. The questions used were similar to a 1994 sex study conducted by The University of Chicago. Compared to the figures from the 1994 survey, it was discovered that more men and women are engaging in oral sex with each other, and a "significantly greater" amount of heterosexual anal sex is going on in 2010. These days, 40 percent of women between the ages of 20 and 45 have engaged in anal sex.

Also notable: The Indiana researchers found 41 different ways people have sex with each other. They also reveal that 85 percent of men claim they gave their partner an orgasm during their latest sexual event, whereas only 64 percent of women said they achieved orgasm during their most recent sexual encounter.

The discrepancy in that last factoid is why findings on self-reported sex surveys need to be digested with a bit of skepticism.

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Monday 04 October

By Chris

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I seriously doubt that anal and oral sex are "more popular" now than in 1994. People today are simply just more comfortable admitting it now.

Tuesday 12 October

By Porn Rack

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You're right!

Saturday 16 October

By Jones

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Clearly those women are lying, if men say they gave women orgasms at an 85% rate then surely some women have forgotten they had an orgasm.

Tuesday 12 October

By Linda

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How many of that 85% were fake orgasms? Women tend to be truthful when it comes to admitting orgasms....

Tuesday 05 October

By alexora

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In 1994, only a tiny, insignificant percentage of young people had access to the internet: they learned about sex the natural way.

Since then, a new generation has learned about sex from watching online porn: to them, anal and oral sex are the norm. And because of this, they expect it from their partners, The survey does not mention facial cumshots, but I would not be at all suprised if this is happen more frequently these days.

Tuesday 05 October

By customartist

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"The Natural Way" was opressive, and mostly because religion had it's promotional outlets (churches) wherein to preach their prudish bolic, and so now, thank God (pun intended), there has been a leveling of the playing field. I take issue with the notion that it may be unnatural to do that which one wishes to do.

Oh, but if Human Sexuality were the only area of religious opression.

Tuesday 05 October

By Corydon76

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> The discrepancy in that last factoid is why findings on self-reported sex surveys need to be digested with a bit of skepticism.

There is no discrepancy in the statistics. Even ignoring same sex encounters, let me paint a simple picture for you:

Woman A has sex with Man A and has no orgasm. Woman B has sex with Man B and has an orgasm. Man B tells Man A about Woman B, and Man A has sex with Woman A, who has an orgasm. Now, only 50% of women in this sample had an orgasm at their last sexual encounter, but 100% of men did. There's no discrepancy in terms of a LAST encounter, but only if the researchers had reported on the AVERAGE encounter.

Tuesday 05 October

By Corydon76

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Oops, make that Man A has sex with Woman B, who has an orgasm. So Woman B has all the orgasms, and Woman A has none, which leaves 50% of the women having orgasms at the last encounter, and 100% of men being able to truthfully report their partners having an orgasm at their last encounter.

All this really means is that women who have orgasms may have more sex than women who don't. Is that really all that surprising?

Tuesday 05 October

By Jeremy Taylor

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I'm completely aware of this. It would be highly, highly unlikely that that (and same sex encounters) could make up for a 21 percent difference. I doubt it's even close

Friday 08 October

By richard

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I only have one thing to say on this subject: Remember the restaurant scene in "When Harry Met Sally"?

Saturday 09 October

By Impulse

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I think you're overthinking this. There's an easier solution.

"They also reveal that 85 percent of men claim they gave their partner an orgasm during their latest sexual event, whereas only 64 percent of women said they achieved orgasm during their most recent sexual encounter. "

All that means is that the 21% of the women faked an orgasm and their partners believed them.

Tuesday 05 October

By angel

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oral sex is disgusting! the only thing that should go in your mouth is food and liquid drinks.. just sayin'

Friday 15 October

By antonio

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Hi Angel, you have a very Victorian attitude and a very sounds like religious up bring. Try it you might like it.

Monday 11 October

By northerner

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Then you have the prerogative & right to not engage in it. Many of us enjoy it, enjoy giving it, enjoy bring their partners to orgasms by it. Don't knock it if you don't like it. Don't deny everyone else their pleasures. Of course, it depends heavily on the personal hygiene habits of partners. Goes without saying.