Are today's women really having less sex?

[AB Asks]

Today's women are having less sex than 1950s women used to, according to new (American) research. Reasons given for this include today's hectic lifestyle and the increasing number of women in higher profile jobs. Dr John Bancroft, the Kinsey Institute's director said, "We live in an age where there is little unfilled leisure time. Sex used to fill that gap." Do you think that the modern lifestyle is having this effect?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2675863.stm

[Joe_the_Lion]

I think the advent of the internet and relaxed porn laws mayhave contributed. So yes, lifestyle is effective.

Classic example, I offered to take a bird out for lunch this week as I am in London, she refused. Why? because she has a job to do and probably looks at male adonises on the web all day!!

[crete]

very interesting. so are men also having less sex ?

[Champagne]

I'm a woman today and I'm having no sex.

:'o(

[alijangra]

Always time for sex IMO!

[crete]

so champagne will you still be a woman tomorrow ? : )

[redcrx]

"there is little unfilled leisure time. Sex used to fill that gap"

so it must be because we are no longer bored enough :)

[B00]

could it also have something to do with the fact that most women in the 1950's wouldn't refuse their menfolk if they didn't feel like it like we can and do today?

PS
Thanks for supplying a link this time Ed :-)

[crete]

did women in the 50 ~s not have headaches ?

[Champagne]

Funnily enough crete the survey doesn't affect men. It's only women who are having less sex these days. So the men must be having the same amount. I'd like to have that explained to me!

And I may not be a woman tomorrow. Might opt for a sex change if it means I'll get more. IT'S NOT FAIR DAGNAMMIT!

[Octavius]

Well Mrs O aint complaining (yet), but then she wasn�t around in the 50�s so she wasn�t having as much sex then as she is now.

I guess in the 50�s they didn�t have the numerous �reality� TV shows, magazines such as Heat and Closer and gym/yoga classes to fulfil their �leisure� time as you put it � I like reds affirmation at the need to be bored! I don�t think high powered careers have anything to do with it, if a woman wants more sex there is usually a queue of men most willing to oblige. So I hear. It�s a choice innit? Not necessarily de rigueur.

[Octavius]

Thinking about sex, I�ve had another thought.

Perhaps in the 50�s the quality wasn�t so good, so there was a requirement for quantity. Now, with the advent of �New Man� and plenty of published help and advice and a woman�s freedom and willingness to ask (demand) for what she wants in the bedroom, quality has reduced the need for quantity?

Is this right ladies? If it is then maybe the AB gentlemen need to rethink their bedside technique - make it rubbish, but often!

[Champagne]

Thinking about sex. Mmmm....

[sleepyj]

what is it less sex with the husband but more sex with the lover .

[Champagne]

Because all men are b&stards who think that once they've bagged a wife they can become complacent about them? Or was that a rhetorical question?

[Octavius]

Well histrionic maybe. But then these women were American, so who knows.

[society]

who or what are the men having sex with if not with women? if they were having sex with women then women would be having equally amount of sex as men.

[porfavour]

I don't think the related link was researched properly...

They interviewed women aged between 20 and 65, 1950's women would now be aged in their 70's and would wholeheartedly agree that they had more sex back then than they do now!

Even if the researchers had 'gone back in time' and interviewed women in the 1950's they would have been coy about the number of times they had sex. These days we are more comfortable talking about our sex lives.

Sure, they had more time.... no television, few outside interests away from their homes, earlier nights to bed and less women with careers....
However, they didn't have contraception (ie the pill), and married couples had to bear the cost themselves for large families.
Single women were not given any financial support or free housing, like today.

If, as we are led to believe....Summers were longer and hotter, food tasted better, families were happier, neighbourhoods were friendlier, sweets were bigger, life was sweeter...etc ...
It follows that they were also getting more sex than now, as life was so perfect for them!

Frankly, I don't believe it!
Just another pop at us girls living in the 2000's!