Everyone knows that sensuality and sex are very important to people’s lives and their relationships. Sexual ‘issues’ can ultimately make or break relationships - families – children’s lives. People think about sex – are concerned about sex for lots of their time. Sex can also be a hammer to trash people’s lives. But how important are sexual activities - really?
To keep the issue in perspective relative to people’s actual lives – versus fantasy lives - consider the following (dubbed by one of the writers tongue-in-cheek, “The Mathematics of Boinking”).
There are 60 minutes in a hour; 24 hours
in a day.
Therefore there are 1,440 minutes in a day.
A week contains 10,080 minutes – no more no less.
Average Weekly Quantity of Sensuality Sessions
The folks who study such things (mostly
condom companies)
suggest that the average quantity of sensuality sessions
between long-term Exclusive Couples is about
3.2 times a week. The totals vary slightly by country.
Average Duration of a Sensuality Session
The same condom folks report that actual
sensuality sessions
between long-term couples range on average about
10 minutes - from a longest of about
16 minutes – to a briefest of 6 minutes.
If you took the averages of both the Quantity
of Sensuality Sessions
and the Duration of each Session in Elapsed Time, it mean
many people’s lives are consumed with dealing with a subject (sex)
that actually involves less than .003% of their available
time.
Insane preoccupation? Maybe it is…
But if it is insane – then what
is truly insane? The importance
that people give the subject of sex in their lives? Or the amount
of time that people don’t spend engaging in one of life’s
great gifts?
Here’s the Mathematics:
3.2 sessions weekly times
10 minutes in duration
equals 32 minutes copulating. 32 minutes equals
about .003% - less the one half of one percent
of the time available in their week. Even if you deduct
8 hours of sleep every day – it still doesn’t get to even
1%.
If you sleep less hours – the percentage is worse.
Even with a standard deviation of 50% - the above clearly indicates that given the magnitude that sensuality plays in current society and individual’s minds, something other then physically touching body-parts has to be involved. What is it? Self-image – power – not wanting to miss out – missing out – or?
As somewhat of an aside to the above mathematics, one of folks preparing this publication said that even if remotely accurate, they now better understood a quip they read on a tee shirt – “Women Fake Orgasms Because Men Fake Foreplay”
Excerpted with permission from Book Of Relationships.
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