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Less sex please, we're British!

  • 08-05-2019 12:17pm
    #1
    Dickerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭


    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48184848

    According to the most recent survey:

    - Less than half (41%) of people aged 16 to 44 have had sex at least once a week in the last month
    - The proportion reporting no sex in the past month has increased - from 23% to 29.3% among women and from 26% to 29.2% among men between 2001 and 2012
    - The proportion reporting sex 10 or more times in the past month has fallen - from 20.6% to 13.2% among women and from 20.2% to 14.4% among men between 2001 and 2012
    - The average number of times that 35 to 44-year-olds reported having sex in the past month fell from four to two among women and from four to three among men

    Would people believe the same is true this side of the water? I always find it surprising when you hear (usually without asking!) about other people's habits. Some relatively normal couples going weeks without. And plenty of playing away from home!


Comments

  • #2
    Balanadan
    Site Banned Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Balanadan


    There's only so much of me that can get around.


  • #3
    Former Observer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 474 ✭✭Former Observer


    once a fortnight except on a full moon.


  • #4
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    ooh-matron-gif-10.gif


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    when they say "Sex", do they mean alone, or with others?


  • #6
    LessOutragePlz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭LessOutragePlz


    Aegir wrote: »
    when they say "Sex", do they mean alone, or with others?

    If you consider pulling the wire off yourself or fingering the box off yourself as sex then you are deluded.


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  • #7
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    You can do it with other people?


  • #8
    LessOutragePlz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭LessOutragePlz


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    You can do it with other people?

    Yeah until Amazon release their sex robots then you're always going to need someone else for it to count as "sex".


  • #9
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    nonsense, they're sex mad.....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCOV09wxuPc


    *sid james laugh, its filthy


  • #10
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    LessOutragePlz wrote: »
    Yeah until Amazon release their sex robots then you're always going to need someone else for it to count as "sex".

    Is there a release date for said robots?


  • #11
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    You can do it with other people?

    Once you sign the proper consent forms


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  • #12
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    sex is icky


  • #13
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Aegir wrote: »
    when they say "Sex", do they mean alone, or with others?

    Alone again...or?!


  • #14
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    jester77 wrote: »
    Once you sign the proper consent forms

    I hear an Bord Pleanála are handling this from next January.


  • #15
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,703 ✭✭✭Feisar


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    sex is icky

    The ickier the better. That stuff that requires a mop and bucket...

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #16
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,703 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Testosterone levels are dropping so it's no surprise really.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #17
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Icky dicky in the gicky

    Dirty den in the pen!


  • #18
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose




  • #19
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    jester77 wrote: »
    Once you sign the proper consent forms

    I seen a thing online somewhere the other day, a consent condom. It comes in a box (no pun intended) that requires 4 hands to open.

    As if the bastards weren't awkward enough to begin with!


  • #20
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,147 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    LessOutragePlz wrote: »
    Yeah until Amazon release their sex robots then you're always going to need someone else for it to count as "sex".
    In the mean time they have fleshlights.


  • #21
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I seen a thing online somewhere the other day, a consent condom. It comes in a box (no pun intended) that requires 4 hands to open.

    As if the bastards weren't awkward enough to begin with!

    That puts me thinking - we've had Petey the Sexual Harassment Panda, what about something like Connie the Consent Camel, or somesuch?


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  • #22
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,330 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    People are too busy showing off what wonderful lives they have on social media*.




    *True story


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    jimgoose wrote: »
    That puts me thinking - we've had Petey the Sexual Harassment Panda, what about something like Connie the Consent Camel, or somesuch?

    If Connie says yes, you get to hump?


  • #24
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Aegir wrote: »
    If Connie says yes, you get to hump?

    Bravo! :pac::pac::pac:


  • #25
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    People are too busy showing off what wonderful lives they have on social media*.




    *True story

    It's all about the egorasm nowadays.


  • #26
    Assetbacked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    I'm anticipating 4 pages on the desktop version of this thread before the giddiness wears off and someone actually makes a proper point!


  • #27
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,703 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Assetbacked wrote: »
    I'm anticipating 4 pages on the desktop version of this thread before the giddiness wears off and someone actually makes a proper point!

    I did make one! Testosterone levels are dropping.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #28
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,515 ✭✭✭valoren


    Quality over quantity?

    Would accessibility/accomodation be an issue? Think of two typical 20 something's house sharing or living at home. Hardly (pardon the pun) presents the opportunity to regularly get down to it.


  • #29
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    valoren wrote: »
    Quality over quantity?

    Would accessibility/accomodation be an issue? Think of two typical 20 something's house sharing or living at home. Hardly (pardon the pun) presents the opportunity to regularly get down to it.
    Too busy watching Bake off to put a bun in the oven


  • #30
    Zorya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭Zorya


    valoren wrote: »
    Quality over quantity?

    Would accessibility/accomodation be an issue? Think of two typical 20 something's house sharing or living at home. Hardly (pardon the pun) presents the opportunity to regularly get down to it.

    Well it certainly helps when the children leave home. I don't know how people who live on terraces/houses estates ever have sex at all. Unless....

    AfraidJuicyGuineafowl-small.gif

    ( Good God I think I've just had a massive money making idea! )


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  • #31
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    jimgoose wrote: »
    That puts me thinking - we've had Petey the Sexual Harassment Panda, what about something like Connie the Consent Camel, or somesuch?

    There's a Petey the sexual harassment panda?

    Is he friends with the Holiday Armadillo I wonder?


  • #32
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    source.gif


  • #33
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,147 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I seen a thing online somewhere the other day, a consent condom. It comes in a box (no pun intended) that requires 4 hands to open.

    As if the bastards weren't awkward enough to begin with!
    That doesn't surprise me. The next step will be to put a small screen on the box and the man will have to watch a video on how not to be a misogynist. Only then can the box be opened. Procreation will eventually become an annual formality.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    LessOutragePlz wrote: »
    If you consider pulling the wire off yourself or fingering the box off yourself as sex then you are deluded.

    Ah ha, the old “Bill Clinton” defence.


  • #35
    FishOnABike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    jimgoose wrote: »
    I hear an Bord Pleanála are handling this from next January.

    Feck sake! Do you know how long it takes for an appeal!


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