Kinsey: In terms of frequency of sexual activity, how big is the difference between individuals? What is its significance?

The average frequency of overall sexual activity of young men is close to 3.3 times a week. This does not mean that the median or other averages are not important, unless the investigator closes his eyes and does not look at the various individual differences in the entire population and The distribution of these differences. This is particularly important when it comes to human sexual behavior, because differences in behavior, even in a small population, are much larger than differences in physical or physiological characteristics. We have some examples of men who have not ejaculated for a long time; there is a man who looks healthy and only ejaculates once in 30 years. Others have long maintained an average frequency of ten, twenty or more ejaculations per week: a man (he is a scholar and a capable lawyer) has averaged more than thirty ejaculations per week for 30 years. . This is just one example of thousands of huge differences.

When considering the structural characteristics of plants and animals, such as the overall height of humans, the length of the wings, legs or other parts of other animals, if the maximum value is 2 to 3 times the minimum value, we will give a large Notice. Someone of us published data on individual differences in insect populations. There are many differences in their characteristics. For example, the difference in wing length is between 10 and 180 micrometer units. This 18-fold difference can probably be regarded as the limit of the length difference in any kind of mature plant or animal. But the limits of human sexual expression differences far exceed these morphological differences.

The calculation results show that the difference between an ejaculation in 30 years and an average of more than 10 times every Wednesday in 30 years is 45,000 times. This difference may arise between two individuals living in the same town, as neighbors, or meeting in the same place for a certain business, and participating in social public activities together. These extreme individuals may be equally important or equally unimportant people in social organizations. Those close friends who don't know their sexual history will see them as similar people. It is worth noting that as long as we collect a sample of one hundred case history, it is possible to show quite a lot of variation.


The difference in the frequency of sexual activity is of great social significance. The publicly declared moral rules, our social system, our marital habits, our sexual laws, and our educational and religious systems are all based on an assumption: individuals are very similar in terms of sex.This is an equally simple question, because they all limit their behavior to the single mode required by custom. Even in such a clear sexual situation as marriage, our current habit rarely considers that two spouses may be far apart in terms of sexual orientation, background, and ability.

People interested in sex education seek solutions that satisfy children—meaning all children—at a certain level of education, but ignore the fact that an individual may be required to adapt to a particular kind of Inactive sexual adjustment, and then you will find that it is impossible for him to limit himself to such a low-level activity.

In the management of compulsory institutions, there is almost no awareness of the possible differences among detainees. The sexual adjustment problems of people in prisons, psychiatric hospitals or other institutions, and the sexual adjustment problems of men and women in the army, navy, or other military, are diverse and diverse. The

curve shows that three-quarters (77.7%) of men’s sexual activity frequency varies from 1 to 6.5 times a week, while close to one-quarter (22.3%) of men have a great variation. For example, 7.6% of men have at least five years of sexual activity with an average frequency of more than 7 times a week. Anyone’s friends and acquaintances will reach full orgasm stimulation and sexual activity daily or several times a day. Data on women to be published later will show that the range of this variation is even greater in women, although most women’s activities have a smaller range of activity than men.


The obvious difference in the possibility of individual sexual activity is something that even a professionally trained person cannot understand. Educational conferences that discuss sex education and sex policies follow the instructions of educational institutions and may produce very different opinions: from in favor of the implementation of abstinence education to full acceptance of any type of sexual activity. No discipline has such obvious disagreements in a group like the science of sex; for an observer, it is difficult for him to understand the objective reasons for the serious disagreement between these highly intelligent men and women.

But if he has the history of these educators, he will find that some people in this group only ejaculate once or twice a year, while others often experience orgasms 10 or 20 times a week.There must be some connection between these incidences and the attitudes of these people when they participate in disputes. Both sides of the debate-these extreme individuals-are unlikely to realize that others in this group will be very different from theirs.

Similarly, we heard discussions about juvenile delinquency, law enforcement, and introduction of legislative activities on the basis of sexual laws. We know that the final policy from this kind of conference must reflect the attitude and sexual experience of the most voiced members of this group. It is not a wise thinking scheme based on objective and accurate data.

Even scientific discussions about sex lack an understanding of the variation of human behavior. More commonly, the conclusion is limited to the author's personal experience. Psychological and psychiatric literature is full of words that evaluate the frequency of sexual activity. But such names as naive, indifferent, sexually inactive, inactive, overactive, super-developed, super-sexy, super-sexual or sexually super-active, from an objective analysis point of view, this is just a response to human sexuality. It's just an attitude of a continuous curve.

[This article is excerpted from the book "Male Sexuality" (edited by Huang Zhongjing, Hainan People's Publishing House, 1989 edition)]

In terms of frequency of sexual activity, what is the difference between single and married men?

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