Study says Republicans have the best sex, Democrats the mostBy Eric Pfeiffer | The Sideshow – Fri, Feb 3, 2012
sexuality expert Alfred KinseyA new study conducted by the dating site Match.com found that self-described single, conservative Republicans are more likely to achieve orgasm during sex than partisans of any other political persuasion.
Liberal Democrats were those least likely to experience fulfilling sexual intimacy, although they reportedly have more frequent sex than their conservative counterparts.
The "Single in America Study" polled 5,000 individuals and found that 53 percent of single conservative Republicans are likely to achieve orgasm during sex, compared with 40 percent of liberal Democrats.
However, conservative Republicans had less sex over the past 12 months than any other group polled in the survey. They were also the most likely to have never had sex.
The study was commissioned by match.com in conjunction with Dr. Laura Berman and biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher.
Some other interesting sociological findings from the study:
Liberal Democrats are more likely to seek out a partner with a sense of humor, a sense of independence, someone they consider their equal and someone who shares a comparable lifestyle.
Conversely, conservative Republicans make similarly reserved choices in their mates, opting for someone with a comparable background and political affiliation who is interested in marriage.
Attitudes about sexual activity also seemed to reflect the larger political stereotypes associated with each group. For example, Republicans were the most likely to report enjoying sex in a married relationship (40 percent). Democrats were the most likely to enjoy sex in a committed but unmarried relationship (48 percent) or living together (36 percent). And those free-wheeling libertarians are most likely to enjoy a "casual hook-up" (46 percent).
And while Republicans seem to change their preference for a political candidate each week, it's Democrats (65 percent) and registered Libertarians (66 percent) who are willing to have a one-night stand, as opposed to 49 percent of Republican respondents.
Comments
I read that over at the Huffington Post this morning.........Interesting and funny.
......it's just infrequent and quickly conducted.
What, no numbers on premature....?
If you seldom have sex then of course your going to spill your load. I imagine there's plenty of orgasms that happen just in the anticipation of actual sex.
If you think that highly structured role playing makes for great sex, the Republicans will win. If you think that mutuality and intimacy are hot, feminists, male and female, will win. There is a lot of psychology involved in the rating game, so how we measure satisfactions are uncertain.
I think that most people's sex lives get better with intimacy, so both the married and the long-term committed unmarried can have actual human relationships of caring where performance is less the issue than opening up to deeper levels of sharing. What I see on the Right, both in terms of the dogma of marriage and 'family values,' and in the dress for men's fantasy creeps me out. But, in the game two people play, there is a lot of room for personal taste and turn ons.
The "sexual revolution" tended to romanticize casual and variety as if doing it with the same person had to be boring. It was wrong. Nothing more awkward than the dating scene and the superficiality of performance.
Nonetheless, the idea that the Right gets better sex depends upon a rather fucked up idea of sex. The power issues of paternalism and macho v. the feminity posing present a lot of bad images.