How much sex is normal? Quality, quantity and types discussed with real women
- Surveys are one thing, but how much sex do people really have? Anthea Rowan invites round four friends, plies them with wine, and finds out
- But sex therapist Nikki Green says that how much is the wrong question to ask – it’s satisfaction levels that we should be focusing on instead
How much sex are you having? This is a question posed by dozens of surveys and studies every year in a bid to find the average: how many times a week, month or year the average person has sex.
Dozens of “surveys” suggest different numbers as “normal” – though this is among the most personal of statistics and we are all wildly different.
Lifestyle magazine Vice canvassed nearly 2,000 of its Australian millennial readers last year and discovered 30 per cent were having sex a couple of times a week, and nearly a quarter more than that. Forty-two per cent would like to have sex three or four times a week, and more than 30 per cent would have it every day if they could.
When asked how much sex we should be having, Nikki Green, a Hong Kong-based psychotherapist and sexual-marital therapist, said it’s a perennial question.