Who says being able to get an erection and keep it until the end is enough to satisfy your partner? Doesn’t the quality of the erection matter too?
If we’re to believe the latest sex survey released yesterday, then the answer is “yes”, there is a strong correlation between erection hardness and satisfaction with one’s sex life, love, romance and overall health.
The results of the Global Better Sex Survey (GBSS) showed that more than half the world’s men and women are not fully satisfied with their sex lives. When questioned, 62 percent men also said they are interested in improving their sexual experience.
One of the largest global surveys of its kind, the study included interviews with 12,563 men and women in 27 countries. It was commissioned to quantify sexual satisfaction while gaining insight into the unmet sexual needs and aspirations of participants.
Thai men and women were almost the same when it came to satisfaction in their sex lives, the percentage being 32 in men and 31 in women, compared to the global average of between 50 and 60 per cent, according to the survey.
Eight in every 10 Thai women are not “fully satisfied” with their male partners’ erection hardness compared to the global average of six in 10, according to the survey carried out a giant pharmaceutical company which sells a popular anti-erectile dysfunction drug.
Thai men surveyed were more satisfied with the quality of their erection hardness than their female partners, said Dr Rosie King, a sexual relationship counsellor from Australia, citing the same survey.
“Well, if men have a positive attitude about their sexual ability, in this case penis hardness, they tend to do better in making sex pleasurable to not only themselves but also their partner,” said Dr Pansak Sugkraroek, a much-quoted obstetrics and gynaecology consultant, who was not involved in the survey.
“On the other hand, if men don’t feel confident about their erection quality, they are tempted to get ‘it’ done as quickly as they can, fearing they’ll lose their erection before they are finished,” he said.
The survey found that Thais had sex less frequently (about four times in a period of four weeks) than the global average, which was found to be six times over 4 weeks.
However, unlike the association between erection hardness and satisfaction, the survey found no link between sexual frequency and the levels of satisfaction either in men or women. While men in both the US and UK have a similar frequency of sex, around six times a month, men in the US are 53pc satisfied while this figure falls to 38pc in the UK.
According to the GBSS, Mexicans take the number one spot as the most sexually content country with 75 per cent fully satisfied.
Koreans seemed to be in a much worse situation, the survey suggested. Satisfaction in their sex lives was only 9 per cent in men and 7 per cent in women.
The findings were revealed yesterday as more than 1,000 international doctors attended the 12th World Congress of the International Society for Sexual Medicine taking place in Cairo. “The GBSS shows that sexual satisfaction is important to couples throughout the world, however, the study also shows that there is room for improvement,” said congress chairman Dr Khaled Dabees.
Sources
The Nation
Gulf Daily News
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