HOW IS THE SEX? Today
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At the same time that sex is practiced with a freedom never seen in history, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) attack on an unprecedented scale. According to the World Health Organization, more than 30 curable infections caused by viruses, bacteria and protozoa are sexually transmitted. Every year, 340 million new cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and trichomoniasis occur in adults between the ages of 15 and 49. Not to mention AIDS, which affects 33 million people on the planet. Outside the WHO, there are few world statistics on the rala-e-role – it is not known, for example, which is the most practiced sexual position on Earth. The largest survey on the subject was carried out by Durex, a condom manufacturer, in 2005 – but Brazil was left out of the 41 countries investigated. Around here, the main research was conducted by Carmita Abdo, a professor at USP, and published in 2008, after 8,200 interviews in ten cities across the country. The result: Brazilians think more than they have sex. While they have sex on average three times a week, they dream of 6.3 relationships a week. In practice, the theory is different…
SEX MATHEMATICS
The hottest stats on what’s going on behind closed doors around the world
QUANTITY X QUALITY: Brazilians have more sex than the world average, but have fewer partners
NUMBER OF SEXUAL PARTNERS (in life)
world average: 9
highest in the world: 14.5 Türkiye
smallest in the world: 3 India
Brazil: Cariocas have the most girlfriends (4.3), and girls from Porto Alegre have the most partners (2.4)
FREQUENCY OF SEX (times per year)
world average: 103
largest in the world: 138 (Greece)
Smallest in the world: 45 (Japan)
Brazil: The national leaders are Brazilians from Belo Horizonte, with 3.8 intercourses per week, and women from Manaus, with 2.7 sexes per week
AGE AT WHICH YOU LOST YOUR VIRGINITY
world average: 15 and 16
Brazil: Girls from Manaus, the most precocious, had sex for the first time at 16, and the girls from Minas Gerais, “late”, at 19
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PORNOGRAPHY
world average: 41%
highest in the world: 62% (Thailand)
smallest in the world: 21% (Italy)
SEX IN THE CAR
world average: 50%
highest in the world: 82% (Italy)
lowest in the world: 5% (Vietnam)
ANAL SEX
world average: 35%
highest in the world: 75% (Chile)
lowest in the world: 1% (Taiwan)
TANTRIC SEX
world average: 7%
highest in the world: 75% (Hong Kong)
lowest in the world: 1% (Türkiye and Japan)
MARRIAGE
Brazil: 46%
Almost half of Brazilians are or have been married, according to the 2000 census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). In 2007 alone, 916,000 couples were united – 152,291 signed the divorce. Of the 136 million Brazilians over 10 years of age:
37% were married
1.9% legally separated
1.6 divorced
4.5% widowers
HOMOSEXUALITY
Women: 4.9% | Men: 7.8%
In Brazil, 4.9% of women declared themselves to be homosexual, against 7.8% of men. The number of bisexuals is smaller: 1.4% of women and 2.6% of men. There is no worldwide statistics, but in the United States, for example, studies by Alfred Kinsey, in the 1950s, stated that about 10% of Americans had had gay relationships for at least three years in adult life.
SCIENCE
– AIDS:
world average: 33
highest in the world: 22.5% (Sub-Saharan Africa)
smallest in the world: 0.026 (Oceania)
– OTHER STDs
(in millions of new cases per year)
world average: 340
Largest in the world: 151 (South East Asia)
smallest in the world: 1 (Oceania)
Brazil:
Syphilis – 937 thousand
Gonorrhea – 1.54 million
Chlamydia – 1.96 million
Genital herpes – 641 thousand
HPV – 685 thousand
SEX WITHOUT A CONDOM
world average: 47%
highest in the world: 73%
lowest in the world: 21%
Brazil: 68%
About 32% of Brazilians always use condoms during sexual intercourse. The most prevented are the men from Cuiabá (38.3% always use it) and the women from Manaus (40%)
CONTINUE: What will sex look like in the future?