- The Egyptian 'Ankh' ,
is actually a symbol representing the male and female sex organs.
- Everyday, 200 million couples around the world have sex, which is about over 2000 couples at any given moment.
- Women are most likely to want to have sex when they are ovulating.
- It was during the Victorian era that the formerly nude Cupid was redesigned as wearing a skirt.
- 30% of women over the age of 80 still have sexual intercourse either with their spouse or boyfriends.
- Mosquitoes, which mate in the air perform a sex act that lasts only 2 seconds.
- Women with a Ph.D. are twice as likely to be interested in a one-night stand than those with only a Bachelor's degree.
- Fellatio ranks as the number one sexual act desired by heterosexual men.
- Australian women have sex on the first date more than women the same age in the USA and Canada.
- It’s illegal to have sex without a condom in Nevada. (More on Sex Laws later).
- Today, Japan leads the world in condom use. Like cosmetics, they're sold door to door, by women.
- More Americans lose their virginity in June than in any other month (must be all those weddings and prom nights).
- A man’s penis not only shrinks during cold weather but also from nonsexual excitement like when his favorite football team scores a touchdown, etc.
- Wyoming’s Grand Tetons mountain range literally means “Big Tits”.
- In the original Grimm fairly tale of 'Sleeping Beauty', the Prince rapes her while she sleeps and then leaves before she wakes up. (Good thing that was rewritten!)
- The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to exercise naked, which often was done in ancient Greece.
- White women and those women with a college degree, when asked said they were more receptive to anal sex than women without college educations.
- The word avocado comes from the Spanish word aguacate which is derived from the Aztec word ahuacati which means testicle.
- The original representation of Cupid by the Greeks was that of a beautiful young boy whose naked form was considered to be the embodiment of sexual love.
- The first condoms in the US were made from vulcanized rubber in the 1870s. They were expensive and annoyingly thick and meant to be reused.
- Women who went to college are more likely to enjoy both the giving and receiving of oral sex than high school dropouts. (Amazing what one learns in college).
- About 1% of the adult female population are able to achieve orgasm solely through breast stimulation.
- 14% of males said that they did not enjoy sex the first time.
- 60% of women say they did not enjoy sex their first time.
- Minks have intercourse that lasts an average of eight hours.
- The chimpanzee holds the record for the quickest mammal sexual intercourse session at an average of three seconds.
- Most turkeys and giraffes are bisexual.
- An adult gorilla's penis is only two inches long.
- Humans, fish and porpoises share a common sexual practice -- fellatio
- The penis of a dragonfly is shaped like a shovel, and has the ability to scoop out a male rivals semen.
- The word pornography comes from the Greek meaning the “writings of prostitutes”.
- In Ancient Greece, women would expose their vaginas to ward off storms at sea.
- In ancient Greece and Rome, dildos were made out of animal horns, gold, silver, ivory and glass.
- While nudity was considered commonplace to the ancient Greeks, a man was considered indecent if he had an exposed erection.
- Both humans and porpoises have one social sex practice in common - group sex.
- The penguin only has one single orgasm in a year.
- The rhinoceros has a penis about two feet long.
- The Black Widow spider eats her mate during or after sex.
- A bull can inseminate 300 cows from one single ejaculation.
- The sperm of a mouse is actually longer than the sperm of an elephant.
- Sex education was first introduced into English schools in 1889.
- Cleopatra invented her own diaphragm from camel's poop.
- Eating the heart of a male Partridge was the cure for impotence in ancient Babylon.
- The left testicle usually hangs lower than the right for right-handed men. The opposite is true for lefties.
- It takes a sperm one hour to swim seven inches.
- The initial spurt of ejaculate travels at 28 miles per hour. By way of comparison, the world record for the 100 yard dash is 27.1 miles per hour.
- Honking of car horns for a couple that just got married is an old superstition to insure great sex.
- The most successful X-rated movie of all time is 'Deep Throat'. It cost approximately $25,000 to make (according to the FBI) and has earned more than $600 million dollars.
- Egyptians inserted stones into their vagina to prevent pregnancy. (It worked kind of like the modern IUD by preventing implantation).
- In Medieval France unfaithful wives were made to chase a chicken through town while naked.
- Napoleon's penis was sold to an American Urologist for $40,000
- Seventy percent of women would rather have chocolate than sex. (Poll taken in a 1995 popular women’s magazine).
- The same chemical responsible for the ecstatic highs of love and sexual attraction, phenylethylamine, is also found in chocolate. (There’s the answer now).
- The male fetus is capable of attaining an erection during the last trimester.
- A survey conducted by Masters and Johnson in the early 1980s revealed that the third-most frequent fantasy amongst both homosexual men and women was a heterosexual encounter.
- According to the Kinsey Institute, half of the men raised on farms have had a sexual encounter with an animal.
- Among sexually active adults, lesbians have the lowest incidence of sexually transmitted diseases.
- The average bra is designed to last for only 180 days of use.
- The sperm of a mouse is actually longer than the sperm of an elephant, when viewed under a microscope of course.
- Casanova boasted that he made love to the same woman twelve times in one day.
- According to Playboy, the most popular sexual aid is erotic literature.
- One of the reasons male deer rub their antlers on a tree or the ground is to masturbate.
- Approximately one out of every two hundred women is born with an extra nipple.
- A small flaccid penis generally has a greater percentage increase during erection than a larger flaccid penis.
- In general, women who are housewives are more faithful than working women. (Sure, who do they meet?) :-)
- The practice of autoerotic asphyxiation (temporarily suffocating or strangling yourself while masturbating) takes the lives of 250 to a thousand people each year.
- A “buckle bunny” is a woman who goes to rodeos with the intent of having sex with a rodeo cowboy.
- Human testicles can increase in size by 50% when a man is aroused.
- The word "sex" was coined in 1382.
- A parthenologist is someone who specializes in the study of virgins and virginity.
- A capon is a castrated rooster. They are said to have more tender meat when cooked and that’s why they cost more.
- Two of the main causes of temporary impotence are tight pants and prolonged cigarette smoking.
- The first public strip-tease dance was performed in Paris in 1894.
- In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit. Huh?
- In Newcastle, Wyoming, an ordinance specifically bans couples from having sex while standing in a store’s walk-in meat freezer.
- It is illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to pose for a pornographic magazine, movie or web site in the USA.
- Oral and anal sex are illegal in many states in the US, between both homosexual and heterosexual people.
- The hymen is named after the Greek God Hymenaeus -- the God of marriage and weddings.
- A pig’s orgasm lasts for about 30 minutes.
- In 2004, a sex toy was introduced that does not require batteries: it connects to a USB port.
- 8.5 billion condoms are produced every year worldwide.
- Graham crackers were once believed (and in some cases used) to reduce sexual arousal and desire.
- Many ancient sexual positions are physically impossible for most people
Some Sexual Laws and History
- The Romans would crush a first time rapist’s gonads between two stones.
- It’s illegal to have sex with a corpse anywhere in the United States.
- In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it’s against the law to have sex with a truck driver in a toll booth.
- In Fairbanks, Alaska it’s illegal for moose to have sex on the city sidewalks.
- In Florida having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal. Ouch!
- Up until 1884, a Victorian-era woman could be sent to prison for denying a husband sex.
- Taking the act of adultery to very painful heights, the Serni of Brazil take a guilty wife, whip her and then expose the wounds to fire ants.
- During the Middle Ages, if you were guilty of bestiality you’d be burned at the stake, along with the other party to your crime.
- The Asiatic Huns punished convicted male rapists and adulterers with castration. Female adulterers were cut in two.
Definitions
- Oneirogmophobia is the fear of wet dreams.
- Hybristophilia is arousal derived by having sex with people who have committed crimes.
- Emetophilia is the arousal from vomit or vomiting.
- Siderodromophilia is the arousal from riding in trains.
- Anasteemaphilia is the attraction to a person because of a difference in height.
- Crematistophilia is the arousal from being charged for sex.
- Dacryphilia is the arousal from seeing tears in the eyes of a partner.
- Oculolintus is the act of licking a partner's eyeball.
- Nasophilia is the arousal from the sight, touch, licking, or sucking of a partner’s nose.
- Sacofricosis is the practice of cutting a hole in the bottom of a front pants pocket in order to masturbate in public with less risk of detection.
- Taphephilia is the arousal from being buried alive.
- Formicophila is the enjoyment of the use of insects for sexual purposes.
- Dendrophilia is a sexual attraction to trees.
- Agalmatophilia is an attractions to statues or mannequins.
- Plushophilia is the attraction to stuff animals or the act of intercourse with a stuffed animal.
- Nasophilia is the arousal from the sight, touch, licking, or sucking of a partner's nose.
- Axillism is the act of using of the armpit for sex.