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The US has more laws governing sexual behavior than every country in Europe combined.
An old state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called “master,” not mister,
when addressed by their female counterparts.
In Minnesota, it is illegal for any man to have sexual intercourse with a live fish. (Apparently,
it's OK for woman. Who can resist a wide-mouth trout?)
As late as 1940, a candidate for the U.S. Naval Academy was rejected if it was discovered
that he masturbated.
In 1998, Alabama created a law banning the sale of sex toys, ruling that the constitution
“doesn’t include a right to sexual privacy.”
The only acceptable sexual position in Washington, D.C. is the missionary position. Any
other sexual position is considered illegal.
Florida’s laws only allow for conjugal sex. Sex outside of marriage and sodomy are
misdemeanors, with penalties of up to 60 days in jail.
Yet another Texas code makes the possession of more than six items designed or
marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs illegal,
whereas the possession of more than six firearms designed to stimulate the
death of human vital organs is OK.
In Sioux Falls, South Dakota, hotels are required by law to furnish their rooms
with twin beds only. A minimum of two feet between the beds is required.
In the state of Utah, sex with an animal—unless performed for profit—is not
considered sodomy and therefore is legal.
Sex Quotes of the Rich and Famous
Marilyn Monroe, the most celebrated sex icon of the 20th century, confessed to a
friend that despite her three husbands and a parade of lovers, she had never had
an orgasm.
"If God had intended us not to
masturbate, He would have made our arms shorter."
George Carlin
"From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell,
waiting to do something about it." Bette Davis
"Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant
fountains lie." William Shakespeare
"Give a man free hands and you'll
know where to find them."
Mae West
“My husband's German. Every night
I get dressed up as Poland and he invades me."
Bette Midler
"Sex is like a bridge game; if you don't have a good partner, you better have
a good hand." Anonymous
"It is not true that sex degrades women... if it is any good."
Alan Partridge
"The difference between
pornography and erotica is lighting."
Gloria Leonard
“Personally I know nothing about
sex because I have always been married."
Zsa Zsa Gabor
An 18th century French prostitute could be spared punishment if she were willing to
join the opera.
In 100 AD, the ancient Germanic tribe, the Teutons would punish anyone caught as
a prostitute by suffocating them in excrement.
Charlemagne thought prostitution should be punishable by death in some cases.
The Romans would crush a first time rapist’s gonads between two stones.
Six thousand years ago, Egyptians, the first to punish sex crimes with castration,
would completely castrate a male convicted of rape, and a woman found guilty
of adultery would find herself without a nose.
Lipstick is believed to have been invented in ancient Egypt for women who
specialized in oral sex. They wanted their lips to look more inviting.
Egyptians inserted stones into their vagina to prevent pregnancy. (It worked
kind of like the modern IUD by preventing implantation).
Women were discouraged from having orgasms during the Middle Ages
because it was thought that orgasms made women less capable of getting pregnant.
It is ancient legend that Cleopatra of the Nile had 2 orgasms a day.
In Ancient Greece, women would expose their vaginas to ward off storms at sea.
It was considered elegant for aristocratic ladies of the 16th century to let their
pubic hair grow as long as possible so it could be pomaded and adorned with
bows and ribbon.
Up until 1884, a Victorian-era woman could be sent to prison for denying a husband sex.
St. Jerome said that full grown virgin women should never bathe and should be ashamed
of their bodies.
In Italy, it’s legal to have sex in a public bathroom as long as you keep the door shut.
41% of French men and women admit to having taken part in group sex.
In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman's genitals, but is forbidden
from looking directly at them during the examination.
The vocabulary of Polynesian [South Pacific] societies has no words in their
language for "obscene", "indecent", or "impure". (Sex is never considered a
source of shame or embarrassment.)
In Kafa in southwestern Ethiopia, a man found guilty of violating a virgin may
be punished by having his head or hands cut off.
In Paramaribo, Suriname, a man who rapes a single woman won't be punished
- if he marries the victim.
In China, women are prohibited from walking around a hotel room in the nude.
A woman may be naked only while in the bathroom.
In some places in Ecuador, the husband can return the bride to her family if he
determines she is not a virgin.
Homosexuality is punishable by death in certain regions of Afghanistan, Iran,
Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Lesser penalties of “life in prison” can be found
in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, India, and Uganda.
According to the Durex study, Canadian women are the most likely group to fake
orgasm.
In Guam it’s forbidden for female virgins to marry. For this reason, some men travel
the countryside deflowering virgins as a full-time job.
It is considered taboo for a respectable Romanian woman to perform oral sex.
In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must
be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death.
According to the Durex study, one in ten people think Brazilians are the sexiest
people on earth, followed by Americans (9%) and the French (8%)
Women’s top sexual choices are the Italians (12%) and the Spanish (11%) while
men opt for Chinese women (11%) and Brazilians (10%)
The group that has the most frequent sex is 35-44 year olds
The French, Greeks, Hungarians and Serbs have the highest sexual frequency.
40 percent of adults in India didn't make love until after they were married.
Those in Japan are the least sexually active.
11 percent of adults around the world have never had sex.
The very first kiss on film was between a Victorian couple filmed during a stage play in 1896.
It was denounced as “shocking and pornographic”.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and
Wilma Flintstone.
First exposure of pubic hair is believed to be “Blow Up”, which received a condemned
rating by the Catholic Church.
It takes a sperm one hour to swim seven inches.
Asparagus, broccoli, and spinach produce sharp-tasting semen.
The more sperm in the ejaculate, the sharper the taste will be.
Celery is said to soften the taste of semen
Actual amount of semen per ejaculation: one to two teaspoons.
According to the Earthsave Foundation, the sperm count of the average American male is
down 30 percent from 30 years ago.
Kinsey studies show that masturbation correlates to social class. Of all groups, educated
professionals admitted to masturbating the most. Groups concerned with unskilled or
manual labor reflected the lowest scores.
Dr. Kellogg introduced Kellogg's Corn Flakes in hopes that it would reduce masturbation.
Upon losing battles, apes will tend to masturbate.
According to the Hite Report, candles are the artificial device used most frequently by
women when masturbating
People in Iceland, Norway and the UK are most likely to use vibrators
Chlamydia is the most common bacterial STD, with 89 million infected people according
to the World Health Organization. Chlamydia is most common in sexually active teens age 14 - 19.
Syphilis was known as "the French Disease" in Italy and "the English Disease" in France.
"Old Joe" is ancient slang for Syphilis.
"Morning dew" is ancient slang for Gonorhea. (More like morning "eeew.")
25% of heterosexual Americans have engaged in anal sex.
8% of Americans engage in regular anal sex.
The anus contracts just as other sexual parts do during orgasmic release.
A medical study conducted in Pennsylvania showed that people who have sex once or
twice a week have their immune systems boosted slightly.
Kinsey reported that sex reduces stress, and that people who have fulfilling sex lives are
less anxious, less violent and less hostile.
A study led by Graham Giles of The Cancer Council Victoria in Melbourne concluded that
the more men ejaculate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop
prostate cancer.
Research done by Dr. Winnifred Cutler, a specialist in behavioral endocrinology, indicates
that women who have intercourse at least once a week are more likely to have normal
menstrual cycles than women who are celibate or who have infrequent sex.
The expression "get laid" supposedly has its roots in the "Everleigh" bordello in 1900's
Chicago ("I'm going to get Everleighed tonight.").
The word "fuck" is actually an acronym. It dates back to the Good Old Days, when
England was severely under populated due to the usual combination of fire, war and
plague. The King issued an official order to... well, fuck, to replenish the population.
Hence the phrase "Fornicate Under Command of the King" passed into everyday language.
According to a U.S. market research firm, the most popular American bra size is
currently 36C, up from 1991 when it was 34B.
The first screen star to use her breasts to harness erotic attention was Jean Harlow,
who would rub her nipples with ice before press conferences.
If it were "painless, safe and free," most men (55 percent) would urge their mates
to get breast implants.
Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.
Porpoises enjoy group sex.
Rhesus macaques (monkeys) experience orgasm, with much the same physiological
response as humans.
Hamsters can have sex seventy-five times a day.
The rhinoceros penis is two feet long.
The majority of giraffes and turkeys are bisexual.
Most male birds don't have a penis, but rather holes that pass the sperm to the females.
A law in Fairbanks, Alaska, forbids moose copulation on city streets.
The average gorilla weighing 200 pounds has a penis that is two inches long
A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
Average Depth of a Vagina: between 3 to 6 inches.
Longest Clitoris: recorded at 4 1/2 inches long and 1 1/2 inches diameter
The vagina and the eye are the body’s self-cleaning organs.
The clitoris is the only organ in a woman’s body that’s only function is to give
sexual pleasure.
Having an orgasm relieves menstrual cramps because the vigorous muscle action
moves blood and other fluids away from congested organs.
The word “vanilla” comes from a Latin word meaning “vagina” because of a vanilla
pod’s likeness of female genitalia.
Rumor has it that United States President, Lyndon Johnson, loved showing off his
penis, which he nicknamed “Jumbo”.
Most men's erections are five-and-a-half to six inches long.
Average length of penis when not erect: 3.5 inches
If they had to choose, most men would rather be five-foot-two inches tall with a
seven-inch penis (62 %), than six-foot-two inches tall with a three-inch penis (36 %).
According
to the Kinsey Institute, the smallest erect penis tops off at 1 3/4 inches.
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing: a testicle.
Left testicles usually hang lower than the right.
In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife may legally kill her husband, but only with her bare hands.
However, the husband's lover may be killed in any manner desired
7 in 10 people would tell their partner if they'd had a sexually transmitted disease or infection,
but only 47 percent would admit having an affair.
According to Archives of General Medicine, coffee drinkers have sex more frequently and
enjoy it more than non-coffee drinkers.
According to “The Solitary Vice”, a book for doctors that came out in the 1890s, women
who masturbate tend to eat a lot of foods containing mustard and vinegar.
In the Aztec culture, avocados were considered so sexually powerful, virgins were
restricted from contact with them.
Those most likely to have unsafe sex without asking about their partner's sexual history
are the Swedes (64% don’t ask), followed by the Japanese, Norwegians and
South Africans (all 58%) the US falls in at 47%.
Who is practicing safe sex? People in India (20%), Vietnam (24%) and Spain (26%)
Materials that have been used to make condoms through history: Linen, tortoiseshell,
leather, silk, sheep gut.
The first condoms in the U.S. were made from vulcanized rubber in the 1870s.
Most men's erections are five-and-a-half to six inches long.
Average length of penis when not erect: 3.5 inches
Fourteen percent of males said that they did not enjoy sex the first time, while
sixty percent of women say they did not enjoy sex their first time.
According to the Kinsey Institute, half of the men raised on farms have had
a sexual encounter with an animal.
The average man sees five women a day he would like to sleep with.
Average number of calories in a teaspoon of semen: 7.
The average time that a man lasts after penetration is two minutes.
According to Rutgers University, Richard Brent holds the male multi-orgasm
record of 6 ejaculations in 36 minutes.
Most Female Orgasms on record: 134 in one hour for a woman.
Longest Recorded Orgasm: 43-seconds with 25 consecutive contractions.
The average woman has sex three times a week.
About 50% of women have one breast that is larger than the other.
According to statistics, Australian women are most likely to have sex on the
first date.
Thirty percent of women who engage in oral sex swallow their partner's ejaculate
every time.
54 percent of women have had a one night stand.
Sixty percent of women say they did not enjoy sex their first time.
J. Edgar Hoover, Oscar Wilde, Chief Crazy Horse, Pope Paul II and Pope Julius III,
Leonard Bernstein, Alexander the Great, Sigmund Freud, Lawrence of Arabia, Plato,
Peter Tchaikovsky and Florence Nightingale were all gay or bi sexual.
"Amy-John" is archaic slang for a "lesbian."
According to the Durex study, More than 17% of Australians are in a gay relationship.
The young males of Sambia in New Guinea must perform a ritualized homosexual act
with tribe elders until they reach adulthood. When they get older, they have sex with women,
during which they hold their noses with clothespin like devices.
In the 1940s, Dr. Walter J. Freeman began prescribing, in widespread fashion, a cure for
homosexuality. He "cured," to an arguable degree of success, mostly institutionalized patients.
By 1955, more than 19,000 American "deviants" had received this treatment.
What was the "cure"? A lobotomy.
Homosexuality is an accepted practice among the South American Lache and Caquitero Indians.
Homosexual marriages are not uncommon; moreover, women who have borne five sons are
permitted to raise one of them as a female.
In the U.S., there is, on average, three sex change operations per day
A sex change has never been performed in Ireland.
Queen Anne had a transvestite cousin, Lord Cornbury, whom she assigned to be governor
of New York and New Jersey. The colonists were not amused.
One of the most famous transvestites in history was Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, a diplomat
in service to Louis XV. He lived to the age of 83, having spent 49 years as a man and 34 as a woman.
At one time, specially selected male children among the Alaskan Koniag were raised as females
from infancy, eventually becoming the wife of a chief or tribal leader. A similar custom of
aboriginal tribes in Greenland designate this person an “Achnutshik”
The 2004 Global Durex Sex Survey
More than 350,000 people from 41 countries
took part in the world's largest ever survey of
sexual attitudes and behavior.
Useless Sexual Trivia:
Tastefully Prurient Facts
about Everyone's Favorite Subject
by
Shane Mooney
The Illustrated Book of
Sexual Records
© 1974, 1982, 1997 G.L. Simons