What is the average time of sex, according to science

Sex: sex time is related to the chances of a woman to reach orgasm, says study

São Paulo - You probably never put a clock next to the bed to see how long their sexual relationship. But a scientific study has 500 heterosexual couples to do just that. Based on these data, the survey could indicate an average of sex duration, excluding preliminary: 5 minutes and 24 seconds.

The change in the duration of activity of the participants was huge throughout the four-week duration of the study. While the couple who had the lowest time obtained 33/2, which had long managed 44 minutes - that is, 80 times more than the lowest result.

What was measured in the study was only the time between vaginal penetration and ejaculation, nothing more.

The survey showed another interesting fact: couples who used condoms showed no significant difference in the mean duration of sex than those who did not used. Circumcision also was not a factor that indicated change in the act of duration.

Something that influenced the reduction of sexual intercourse time was the age of the partners. The older they were, the less time it lasted.

The nationalities of couples showed no importance in the study, except in the case of the Turks, who had the lowest average: 3 minutes and 42 seconds. People who participated in the study were the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.

How long is normal?

The duration considered normal for a sexual relationship varies according to what we think is normal. At the end of the 1940s, the average time of sex duration was two minutes to 45% of men, a number that can generate a premature ejaculation diagnosis currently, according to Crystal Dilworth, biomedical and scientific disseminator.

According to a study by the University of New Brunswick, the average length of sexual intercourse is between 5 and 10 minutes. When the activity exceeds 20 minutes, it is considered undesirable by most of the 152 participating couples who were aged 21-77 years.

The sex therapist Barry W. McCarthy made a statement to Esquire which corroborates the results of scientific research. "Very few people have sex itself [vaginal penetration] lasting more than 12 minutes," said McCarthy.

And science shows that deceives those who think that the time of foreplay is the factor that matters most to a woman reaches orgasm. A study of 2,360 Czech women, published in 2009 in The Journal of Sexual Medicine and conducted by psychologists Petr Weiss and Stuart Brody, concluded that the chance of a female orgasm are more related to the duration of the sexual act than with the primary .