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Average Chinese has 19.3 sex partners: Durex
November 16, 2004
Durex 2004 Global Sex Survey showed the Chinese have the most per capita sexual
partners as 19.3, while with the most gloomy sex ardour.
Each Chinese has on average 19.3 partners toping the sex league table where an
worldwide average number is just 10.5, according to the world's biggest condom
maker, Durex.
It makes one doubt how the Chinese possess so affluent partners while
contending with the world's low sex drive, which ranks them seventh to last in
the world, also revealed the Durex survey.
The condom maker dismisses suggestions that the survey samples may be
unrepresentative or that some cultures could be prone to exaggeration, saying
confidential Web polling encourages honesty.
Some experts say the survey clearly points to a lagging sex rate in parts of
Asia, although they don't believe a simple lack of interest in love-making is
to blame.
"We can assume quite a bit of truth or reliability in the findings," said sex
therapy specialist Professor Man-Lun Ng of Hong Kong University's psychiatry
department, who noted the results agree with other studies of Asian sexuality.
"But less sexual intercourse does not necessarily mean lower libido."
With regard to the shocking number "19.3," Durex has its own explanation, that
is the survey was conducted through the Internet.
A convenient edge of Internet survey is its anonymity, which enables
privacy-concerned sex survey participants to get to have greater anonymity than
those done in person. However, the anonymity also causes those surveyed to be
answering very casually.
In China, netizens do not take a representative proportion among the total
population. Plus, some may netizens treated the survey irresponsibly or even
maliciously. There came the "19.3", which, though added up, is far from the
fact.
Admittedly, extramarital and premarital affairs in China are on the rise as the
Chinese people have been influenced by the Western sex liberation concept and
draw away from the traditional norms.
However, it must be suspect that the number of partners of the Chinese is at
the world's top. The fact is, in the eyes of Westerners, China after the
opening-up has still not realized sexual liberation.
Chinese view on sex arouses introspection among Westerners. Not long ago,
Western scientists praised Chinese traditional view on marriage, reckoning that
prudent and responsible conception of family and marriage, and keeping sexually
loyal, are conducive to preventing AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)
from spreading and is worthwhile for people in the western world to learn.
Isn't it a contradiction then that Durex placed the Chinese people atop the
world's rankings on sexual partners?
Increasing partners is unlikely to be something that either health experts or
conservative Chinese will embrace with optimism.
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