20 Misconceptions About Sex (mental_floss)

YouTube: A weekly show where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, Dr. Aaron Carroll debunks some common myths about sex.
Enzobluesays...

A. the average penis size is 6" ever since ever. Where did they get 7? hair? condoms? Oh man... Bigger breasts have ALWAYS been considered MORE sensitive because the nerves are closer to the surface... men do peak earlier - young guys do come earlier....just gave up after.

Enzobluesays...

No evidence just experience. Like the condom thing, it DOES reduce the sensation, (your fooling yourself if you think otherwise), and did they account for experience in the old/young difference? I've never met anyone who thought that women were getting more hairless and ask any man over 40 and he will tell you that he came faster in his 20's - once having to concentrate on not coming and now having to do just the opposite. Does the experiment consider man's developed mental control?
You may be right, but it just all seems iffy to me. Never heard 7" before.

Stusays...

I'm with blue. It's been an assumed 6 inches forever but there's been studies out since the 90s that the avg is only 5.5 and then they even broke it down by race with american indians being the largest avg at 5.7. Same thing with condom sensitivity. They actually make condoms now that make it less sensitive for men who go...faster. Bigger breasts ARE less sensitive. The latest being a study done in Vienna where larger breasts were approximately 25% less sensitive because breast have more fatty tissue than glandular tissue which is more sensitive.
I want to see this guy's sources. He has a lot of good facts but a lot of bad ones as well.

newtboysays...

WTF?!? 30 min of sex "might burn off 85-150 calories!?! Not the way I do it, buddy! Try moving a little.
Peaking sexually is about how much sex you WANT, not how much you might get.
The study said men think about sex every 7 seconds ON AVERAGE, dumbass, that's different from 'every seven seconds'! That means if they think about sex 100 times in one minute, they're good for the next 12. A 'thought' doesn't take long for most of us. If you consider many teenagers spend months or even years thinking about sex, it gives them a lot of time later in life to think about other things and yet still 'think about sex every seven seconds on average'.
Can a newt get a *fail (I'm not talking to you, Sifty)

Lilithiasays...

You have to consider that he only talks about the average person, which in turn only takes into account the persons who took part in these studies. This means that individuals may, of course, deviate from the average values resulting from these studies. Unless you are the average person, your own experience is bound to differ from what the average person would experience according to these studies.

He didn't say that condoms won't reduce the sensation. He just stated that on average they don't make a man last longer in bed.

Also, he stated that on average, taking into account men with lifelong issues with this in general, the age makes no difference considering premature ejaculation. This doesn't mean that it won't be like you said for most men who don't suffer from "severe and lifelong premature ejaculation". He even admits that for most men it is a "transient issue that goes away".

Enzobluesaid:

No evidence just experience. Like the condom thing, it DOES reduce the sensation, (your fooling yourself if you think otherwise), and did they account for experience in the old/young difference? I've never met anyone who thought that women were getting more hairless and ask any man over 40 and he will tell you that he came faster in his 20's - once having to concentrate on not coming and now having to do just the opposite. Does the experiment consider man's developed mental control?
You may be right, but it just all seems iffy to me. Never heard 7" before.

Lilithiasays...

As he said, studies have shown that bigger breasts are less sensitive, but this only makes a difference if you try to feel "hair-like filaments". If you're not trying to feel a single hair on your breasts, it seems to make no difference.

Stusaid:

I'm with blue. It's been an assumed 6 inches forever but there's been studies out since the 90s that the avg is only 5.5 and then they even broke it down by race with american indians being the largest avg at 5.7. Same thing with condom sensitivity. They actually make condoms now that make it less sensitive for men who go...faster. Bigger breasts ARE less sensitive. The latest being a study done in Vienna where larger breasts were approximately 25% less sensitive because breast have more fatty tissue than glandular tissue which is more sensitive.
I want to see this guy's sources. He has a lot of good facts but a lot of bad ones as well.

Stusays...

Go talk to women with larger breasts and ones with smaller. Do your own study. Their "sexual sensitivity," as in their stimulation for pleasure is much less. That has been my personal experience. Women with breasts C cup and under like fondling and breast play more.

Lilithiasaid:

As he said, studies have shown that bigger breasts are less sensitive, but this only makes a difference if you try to feel "hair-like filaments". If you're not trying to feel a single hair on your breasts, it seems to make no difference.

Lilithiasays...

If what you say is true, he probably knows that this value is meant to represent the average. Nevertheless, some people actually believe that this really means every 7 seconds every day, which is the myth he tries to debunk in this video, not the study (if there is one) that people apparently misinterpreted.

newtboysaid:

WTF?!? 30 min of sex "might burn off 85-150 calories!?! Not the way I do it, buddy! Try moving a little.
Peaking sexually is about how much sex you WANT, not how much you might get.
The study said men think about sex every 7 seconds ON AVERAGE, dumbass, that's different from 'every seven seconds'! That means if they think about sex 100 times in one minute, they're good for the next 12. A 'thought' doesn't take long for most of us. If you consider many teenagers spend months or even years thinking about sex, it gives them a lot of time later in life to think about other things and yet still 'think about sex every seven seconds on average'.
Can a newt get a *fail (I'm not talking to you, Sifty)

Lilithiasays...

I don't know anything about this issue apart from what is stated in this video and what you just said. I guess I could do my own study, but I think it would come across as strange or creepy if I approached random women with big and small breasts on the street, asking them if they like their breasts being touched and writing down the results.
Everybody seems to have a different opinion on this, so I guess I'll never know.

Stusaid:

Go talk to women with larger breasts and ones with smaller. Do your own study. Their "sexual sensitivity," as in their stimulation for pleasure is much less. That has been my personal experience. Women with breasts C cup and under like fondling and breast play more.

newtboysays...

If that's what he meant, he should have said that, and not said it in such a way that made it sound like the study said 'every seven seconds, period' without 'on average'. He should have repeated for each case, 'most people think this study said "X" when it really said "Y"'.
To me, he set up a straw man then pushed it down (repeatedly). He either miss-stated or miss-interpreted most of the 'studies' he referenced (or at best jumped to the assumption that most other people miss-interpret them).
I must say, I found it odd that (according to his numbers) married women masturbate more than single women....what's up with that?!?
Also, in his part about women removing their hair, his results only add up to 56% of women total. (11% usually totally shaved, 20% never shave, 25% partially or sometimes shaved) What about the other 44% dude?

Lilithiasaid:

If what you say is true, he probably knows that this value is meant to represent the average. Nevertheless, some people actually believe that this really means every 7 seconds every day, which is the myth he tries to debunk in this video, not the study (if there is one) that people apparently misinterpreted.

Fairbssays...

No scientific basis here, but my explanations would be that the time between a woman 'discovering herself' and marriage is relatively short (generally speaking). So during that time there may be little dittl er... mb and then said woman gets married and eventually gets bored with her partner so the mb rate increases. In the case or the woman who gets married later in life or becomes single again, maybe there's more sex going on due to varied partners so less need to mb. That's my theory at least. I got distracted while watching the video and decided not to watch the rest after seeing all of the comments disputing the facts of the video. Did they say whether married men mb more than single ones?

newtboysaid:

I must say, I found it odd that (according to his numbers) married women masturbate more than single women....what's up with that?!?

newtboysays...

They compared male college students 98% of whom masturbate 12+ times a month, and married men, 85% of which had masturbated in the last year
I guess they really said 44% of college women masturbated 5 times in the last month, and 45% of married women had masturbated in the last year at least once. Not exactly what I thought it said the first time.

Fairbssaid:

No scientific basis here, but my explanations would be that the time between a woman 'discovering herself' and marriage is relatively short (generally speaking). So during that time there may be little dittl er... mb and then said woman gets married and eventually gets bored with her partner so the mb rate increases. In the case or the woman who gets married later in life or becomes single again, maybe there's more sex going on due to varied partners so less need to mb. That's my theory at least. I got distracted while watching the video and decided not to watch the rest after seeing all of the comments disputing the facts of the video. Did they say whether married men mb more than single ones?

Jinxsays...

Because the claim that men think about sex 1.6 times a second for one minute out of 12 all day is just so much more reasonable.

IDK bout u man, I think about sex like, 3000 times in my first few waking minutes. That way I am set until about lunch time ya know.

newtboysaid:

WTF?!? 30 min of sex "might burn off 85-150 calories!?! Not the way I do it, buddy! Try moving a little.
Peaking sexually is about how much sex you WANT, not how much you might get.
The study said men think about sex every 7 seconds ON AVERAGE, dumbass, that's different from 'every seven seconds'! That means if they think about sex 100 times in one minute, they're good for the next 12. A 'thought' doesn't take long for most of us. If you consider many teenagers spend months or even years thinking about sex, it gives them a lot of time later in life to think about other things and yet still 'think about sex every seven seconds on average'.
Can a newt get a *fail (I'm not talking to you, Sifty)

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