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Observing Mars & Venus: Men, Women, Group Sex & Polling  

rockwriter58 63M
1038 posts
3/22/2006 3:46 pm

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4/24/2006 10:15 am

Observing Mars & Venus: Men, Women, Group Sex & Polling

Part I

Polls seem to be very controversial these days. Being someone who can’t resist a challenge or sometimes a temptation, I dove in too.

But as usual, with a twist.

Two weeks ago, in the entry Gangbang Stars, the challenge was to see if we could replicate part of a questionable British sex study. The result: we got about half-way there. You might think the results are half-baked, and by any scientific or research method, you’d be right. Polls here aren’t scientific.

In the end, the results actually revealed very little about the different views of men and women concerning group sex. But the results did provide insight about how women and men differ in how they approach sex studies and sex polls.

In a way, the results mirror a study published in The Journal of Sex Research (Yes, a real scholarly publication on sex!) about how men and women differ in how they answer polls and studies on the topic of sex.

This was a study published in 2003 and conducted by two psychologists; one at Ohio State University and the other at the University of Maine. The study used 200 undergraduate students from both schools as test subjects. And the questioning was about how many sex partners they’d had in their lives up to that point.

(The remainder will conclude inside.)


rockwriter58 63M
1386 posts
3/22/2006 3:48 pm

Part II

The study divided one hundred male students into three different study groups. Likewise, the women were divided into three groups. (Sure, a study with more students would be even better. This is still a very small sample. But the results are intriguing.) All the groups filled out the same survey about sex partners. The key question was how many they would self-report.

One group filled out the survey in a room, alone, and they were assured this was an anonymous survey, so not to put their names on it. One group filled out the survey in a room, but a research assistant was posted just outside and the students were told the assistant might look over their survey while they were present. Finally, a third group filled out the study while hooked up to a lie detector. (The lie detector was actually a fake, but the students did not know this.)

Afterward, the study found that no matter the setting, men’s answers rarely varied. Yet the variance was noticeable for the women, depending upon the conditions while they were filling out the survey. Men reported an average of four sex partners in each group.
The women who were told the research assistant might look at their answers reported the lowest average: two sex partners. The women who filled out the survey anonymously reported having on average three sex partners. And those who thought the lie detector might detect a falsehood reported the same average as the men in the study: four sex partners.

The researchers (two women, by the way) reasoned that this showed men did not care about testing conditions when it came to sex surveys and tended to answer truthfully. Women’s answers however depended upon conditions and how they thought those answers might reflect on them in society. In a setting where they thought a lie might be detected, they gave the highest numbers. In the setting when they thought a researcher might form an opinion of them, they gave the lowest numbers. And even in an anonymous setting but one where they perceived the veracity of their claims would not be checked, the averages were slightly lower than in the setting with the lie detector.

“Women are more sensitive to social expectations for their sexual behavior and may be less honest,” one of the authors of the study said at the time.


rockwriter58 63M
1386 posts
3/22/2006 3:48 pm

Part III

That brings us to our review of the British study on sex preferences and fantasies.

In that study, more women claimed they had no sex fantasies or just refused to answer (31 percent), while the top male answer was a preference or top fantasy concerning group sex (31 percent). Now, of course, comparing that British study to the U.S. study on sex answers is like comparing apples and oranges, and let’s not even consider the unscientific nature of throwing in our own polls. But work with me here, because the results are at least good party chatter. Could it be the women didn’t feel secure enough to reveal their real fantasies and preferences in the British study?

The top male preference in that study was for FMF group sex. The comments on our polls (See Group Sex The Male View and Group Sex The Female View.) showed a similarly strong male preference. In our poll, more than 81 percent of the men said they preferred group sex or their top fantasy was of group sex. Of course, this site would skew those results a bit. But group sex was still at the top of the male list. Only 13 percent of the men reported no interest or no group sex fantasies. In the British study that was 26 percent, but that was still the second most popular category for men to choose. A fantasy or sex act with an already established primary sex partner was six percent for men in our poll, compared to ten percent in the British study. Although the percentages differed, the overall rankings were the same in our tiny poll and the British study.

But compare the female numbers and you get a very different story.

The top answer in our poll said women actually preferred group sex by similar numbers as men with 88 percent giving that preference or top fantasy. Only 22 percent said they had no sexual fantasies or preferences or preferred not to answer, compared to 31 percent in the British study. This flips that British study on its head and actually says women’s preferences are closer to men’s than men might think. Also, although 21 percent of women said their preference was to have sex with their primary partner, or their fantasies revolved around their primary partner, it is interesting to note that no women took that option on this website. Perhaps that shouldn’t be such a surprise.

My conclusion: more women are interested in group sex than they let on.

© ♪rockwriter58♪


keithcancook 67M
18358 posts
3/22/2006 4:53 pm

Are you suggesting that females are like chameleons? Cuz it's true.

~pigcancook

^ . . ^

( @ )

pigcancook


rockwriter58 replies on 3/24/2006 7:07 am:
Don't get me wrong, Mr. Pig Can Cook... I have not become a peccary. Yet. Besides, the researchers who said that are women. So I think I'm on firmer ground with what I wrote.

saddletrampsk 61F

3/22/2006 7:50 pm

Im interested..


rockwriter58 replies on 3/24/2006 7:08 am:
I hope you'll keep us posted on your progress on that front, saddletramp.

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