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- From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
- Subject: Re: What do you Am men think about Am wome
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- References: <74489@apple.apple.COM> <By0pFF.Fzx@access.digex.com> <1992Nov20.181023.18001@fid.morgan.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:40:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.181023.18001@fid.morgan.com> sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart) writes:
- >In article <By0pFF.Fzx@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com
- >(Herb Huston) writes:
- >>In article <74489@apple.apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
- >>>huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
- >>>
- >>>>Here are some numbers. The average duration of human copulation is about
- >>>>four minutes.
- >>>
- >>>Ninety seconds is a more commonly quoted figure.
- >>
- >>I've rechecked my source (Jared Diamond's _The Third Chimpanzee_), and I
- >>stand by the 4-minute figure.
- >
- >I guess it depends on whether you average in negative numbers for
- >premature ejaculators.
-
- Well, I might have found a possible "explanation" for the 90-second figure.
- It seems that Kinsey published a statistic of 75% of all men in 2 minutes or
- less. It seems plausible that some bozo would multiply .75 by 2 minutes and
- convert the result to 90 seconds. Masters and Johnson and other researchers
- dispute Kinsey's result as being too brief. On the other hand, I could see
- that M&J's technique (observation instead of interviews) might lead to longer
- durations.
-
- > (sometimes I just feel silly)
-
- After Dr. Kinsey switched from studying gall wasps to gathering data on
- human sexual behavior, he had to do a lot more traveling. Supposedly
- someone once asked Mrs. Kinsey about this, and she replied, "I just don't
- see as much of him since he became interested in sex."
-
- -- Herb Huston
- -- huston@access.digex.com
-