According to a global survey on market research website onepoll.com, New Zealand women are the most sexually experienced in the world, with an average of 20.4 sexual partners in a lifetime, more than any other nationality.
Comedian Michele A’Court thinks the findings prove New Zealand women are more honest than those in other countries.
In the US, for example, some young women proudly proclaim their virginity, despite engaging in non-penetrative sex acts, she says. “Without making myself sound like a slapper, my initial reaction is that 20.4 doesn’t sound like a huge amount over a lifetime.”
20 is quite a bit more than Cactus Kate’s number and quite a bit less than Busted Blonde’s!
Society has changed massively in the last 30 years. Women used to not go to university, work for a few years, marry their first or second boyfriend in their early 20s and start popping out kids.
Now far more women than men go to university, and are career focused. I’d say the same proportion still want kids, but not until the early to mid 30s – and generally one or two only.
And this reflects in relationships also. As the baby age has got older, the marrying age has changed from 20ish to 30ish. And in that extra ten years of singledom, a couple of different bonks a year isn’t a huge deal.
Sexologist Dr Michelle Mars puts the result down to the failings of Kiwi blokes.
“New Zealand men aren’t very good at picking up women unless they’re really drunk. So what tends to happen is in New Zealand, women are just as likely to ask men to have sex as men are to ask women.
Heh, Australian women are even more, umm, assertive.
“While a lot of people would read that statistic quite negatively, I think it’s quite a positive. It’s more of a gender balance in people getting the kind of sex they want.”
Former gossip columnist Bridget Saunders, who is writing a book on bad sex, believes New Zealand women are “incredibly sexually active” and is worried by the trend.
“A lot of it is to do with the new ‘ladette’ culture,” she says. “It’s almost like wanting to be one of the boys, or to be more like one of the boys than the boys are themselves.”
One sees the ladette culture, in more than just the bedroom. Go to a rugby match – once they were 90% male spectators, and now there are huge numbers of female fans.
Society used to teach young men and women to have very different expectations in life. Women’s job was to get married and have kids, and men’s job is to get a good job and by the family provider. Men with multiple partners were studs and women were sluts. Men were seen as more suited to higher education, and women were not.
I think one of the best things about living in today’s world, as opposed to in the past, has been the increasing equality of women. WWII started the cultural change, and it has been for the better – even if some people don’t like the fact that women are catching up to men in the bedroom stakes – not just the education and work stakes.
Comments
GetFrank Member says
I definately find this statistic negative. A woman can sure meet other men, and have them to be partners, but is sex necessary? Maybe it's because everyone jumps straight to the sex is why relationships in modern times just dont work. Equality is fine, but girls should never be like boys, it wouldn't work. If men and women were 100% equal in every way what will be so attractive about women to men and VV. Sex is a problem in modern society, it's the most intimate action that can happen between a man and a woman, and the whole "a couple of bonks a year" thing is disgusting imo. Parents are too old for their children when they have children so late. I have a friend of mine who's parents are older than my grandparents, well naturally as a result they dont get along as friends, but parents just become the childs 'sponsers'.
Dave Nicholls says
Two women getting it on is considered hot, often by both sexes, because it is two women being feminine and doing something feminine. Two men getting it on is not considered hot by either sex because it is two men doing something feminine. However two guys doing something masculine is considered attractive by women and approved of by men. The point I am trying to make is that people, in general, like it when girls do feminine things like wear skirts, shave their legs etc. This emergence of a ladette culture is not so good. I am all for women doing some masculine activities as long as they retain their femininity. 20.4 sexual partners is really one like sleeping with 2 men a year from 18 - 28 which I would not consider masculine. My only concern is women acting like me!
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