new Kinsey study shows sex is in the eye of the beholder

by Violet Blue on March 5, 2010

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Is oral sex considered sex? It wasn’t to around 30 percent of the study participants. How about anal sex? For around 20 percent of the participants, no. A surprising number of older men did not consider penile-vaginal intercourse to be sex. More than idle gossip, the answers to questions about sex can inform — or misinform — research, medical advice and health education efforts.

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1 Neil A March 12, 2010 at 7:42 am

Just to say wow what a picture, see through red panties with a shaven pussy a sure fire fav of mine espeically when being taken off by lovely tittied babe….enough to give me cause for ejaculation whether in a pussy or not!

2 Abolitionist March 11, 2010 at 11:19 pm

or it means that 5% were not capable of understanding larger words like intercourse, ejaculation, and what a new acronym (to them) like PVI means. Which would also mean a larger error rate than intended.

3 R March 5, 2010 at 8:14 pm

“95 percent of respondents would consider penile-vaginal intercourse (PVI) having had sex, but this rate drops to 89 percent if there is no ejaculation.”

I can sort of get the quibbling about ejaculation. But this means that 5% of the respondents did not think that penile-vaginal intercourse with ejaculation to be “having sex.” Which leads one to ask: what would count as sex to these people?

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