20 Fascinating Sex Facts You Never Knew
Sex is one of life’s pleasures that is practiced by most people at least once in their lifetime.
Talking Pretty did a little research on some must know information on what happens in and out of the sheets.
Check out these 20 fascinating, interesting, and unusual sex facts below.
1. One on four men switches the light off during sex.
2. Sex toys and vibrators are banned in shops in Alabama and Mississippi. The attorney general stated; “there is no fundamental right for a person to buy a device to produce orgasms.”
3. The woman’s best friend, her trusty vibrator, was originally invented in the 19th century to reduce ‘hysteria.’
4. A quarter of penises are slightly bent when erect.
5. The average length of a man’s penis (when erect) is 5-7 inches.
6. Average speed of ejaculation: 28 miles per hour.
7. You burn about 200 calories during 30 minutes of active sex.
8. Sperm contains proteins that have the same anti-wrinkle effect as your moisturizer, which tighten skin and give an instant face-lift.
9. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
10. Men like a big butt because it indicates fertility.
11. Men hear this! If you eat celery it will make you more attractive to women. “When you chew a stalk of celery, you release androstenone and androstenol odour molecules into your mouth. Then they travel up the back of your throat to your nose,” according to Alan Hirsch, M.D. “Once there, the pheromones boost your arousal, turning you on and causing your body to send off scents and signals that make you more desirable to women.”
12. 70% of men refuse sex during their girlfriend’s period.
13. The average amount of time spent kissing for a person in a lifetime is 20,160 minutes. That’s 336 hours, 14 days, or two weeks.
14. Hair on different parts of the body grow at different speeds and pubic hair has a short growth period.
15. Sex cures headaches. Sex causes the body to release endorphins which naturally reduce the pain of a headache.
16. Shoe and feet fetishes are the most popular in the Western world.
17. Men have an average 11 erections per day.
18. Studies have shown that men who look at porn of two men and one woman produced more sperm than those who looked at just women. Scientists speculate that seeing competition makes men step up their baby-making capabilities.
19. The term “blow job” comes from the Victorian times. A slang term for prostitute was “blowsy,” and at the same time “blow” was slang for ejaculation.
20. There are roughly 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day!
