News.com.au reports on the shattering of a myth:
Forget the perception of France as a land of sexual fulfilment. The sad truth exposed in a new report shows that when it comes to performance in bed, the French have nothing to crow about.They may talk a good game. As far as sex in the cinema, literature and advertising is concerned, there is no beating them. Yet the popular image of the French as the masters of all things sexual – consider the terms “French letter” and “French kissing” – is entirely misguided.Far from being obsessed with sex, almost half of French people living alone (49.5 per cent) could not care less if they went without sex for months on end; 23 per cent said they would be “relieved” not to have sex for several months. Half the population did not associate sex with pleasure.The study, published in January’s Journal of Sexual Medicine by a group of French sexologists, confirmed other research showing that for all their reputation as serial seducers, the French are far from “swimming”, as one commentator put it, “in libidinous ecstasy”.Instead, only half of men and even fewer women (45 per cent) expressed “relative satisfaction” with their sex life. Only one-third of men did not wish to change their sex life and a quarter complained of a “diminution of sexual desire”.A pitiful 5.6 per cent of men (and 8 per cent of women) expressed satisfaction with the “frequency of intercourse”.
I particularly like the picture accompanying this article. I have always suspected that the Eiffel Tower is related to overcompensation.
