The scientific data that is sometimes offered to us has a relative veracity, since people we tend to lie quite frequently
We do not tell the whole truth, especially in those topics that make us uncomfortable or on which a cultural taboo weighs. One of the most obvious is sex, where “normality” is a blurred concept. But every now and then a scientific study comes out that sheds some light on the question of how we relate to the other sex and to ourselves.
Intelligent people masturbate more regularly, study reveals
A recent investigation carried out in the United States has revealed a curious correlation between two variables: a person’s level of education and the frequency of masturbation, finding that they are People with greater educational knowledge tend to masturbate more frequently
This interesting and controversial study was carried out by the National School of Sexual Health and Behavior directed by the psychologist specialized in sexual behavior Debby Herbenick, a leading researcher at the Kinsey Institute in the United States of America. She has led this research, finding that people with higher academic levels tend to masturbate more frequently.
According to the Catalan scientific popularizer Pere Estupinyà in his book S=EX2the research was fully funded by a well-known condom corporation, and consisted of conducting surveys of a total of 6,000 American citizens between 14 and 90 years of age, rigorously selected, with extensive follow-up of the participants, This being one of the most complete studies about how human beings experience sex in today’s societies The data and results of these surveys have been the subject of much attention.
As the scrutiny of the polls has revealed, 71.5% of women between 25 and 29 years old acknowledge having masturbated during the last year A more modest figure, 46.5%, are women between 60 and 69 years old who claim to have done so in the past 365 days.
If we go to slightly older ages, as is the case of people over 70 years old, the study reported that 33% say they have masturbated over the last year; a fairly high figure if we take into account the popular belief that sex is not present in the lives of older people.
It seems that people with better training practice masturbation more
Other conclusions of the study were, for example, the correlation between the academic level of the subject and the correlation of this variable with the frequency of masturbation. As the headline of the news says, it seems that there is a tendency that, The higher the level of education, the more habitually the individual masturbates
On the other hand, the survey also showed that 25% of men and only 5% of women confess to having consulted pornographic content on the Internet during the last month. Another interesting fact, which has to do with protection in sexual relations, is that 28% of men claim to have lost their erection when they were about to put on a condom in at least one of their last three sexual encounters.
