Sex? No Thanks!

My, oh my! It turns out not all young men are tripping over themselves to get more action. And now there are stats to prove it.

A recent study found 12 percent of Australian men aged 16-24 actually wanted less sex — a higher proportion than any other age group.

“Although it’s a minority, it’s still interesting that it’s more of them (than any other age group), which is not that sort of myth, boys not getting enough sex and dying to get it,” researcher Juliet Richter said.

In fact, only 31 percent of young guys said they wanted more sex. I’m no maths whizz, but my calculations tell me 57 percent of these boys must be happy with the amount of sex they’re having.

Unfortunately for these young men, they may be “overwhelmed by girls of much the same age who are madly in love and very keen.”

This paints a very different picture to that which is normally associated with young men by popular culture; perhaps evidence that they aren’t all porn-devouring, manic-masturbating monsters, feeding girls drinks at frat-parties and going to any lengths to get lucky.

The study, which surveyed 4300 heterosexual men and 4400 women, found it was the middle-aged men who most wished for more sex. Of men aged 35-44, 57 percent wanted more, as did half of the men in the 55-64 category.

The results for the women were also enlightening.

If you’ve been watching American sitcoms over the past decade you’d have thought all women were pulling the Debra Romano “Raaay, I’ve got a headache” trick, every second night.

In reality only 14 percent of women said they wanted less sex. What’s more, 28 percent of women 35-44 even admitted they wanted more sex.

As per usual, you can’t always trust the stereotype.

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