(FOX NEWS) 2 January 2008:

What are the uses to which we can put sex surveys? Well, of course, we can find out what is “normal,” but when it comes to bedroom hijinks…what’s really normal? Perhaps the value is that the survey results allay the fears of those who worry about such things.

They can also give us insights into the human condition, for example, one survey (reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, so a real one) said that 34% of men and 10% of women have told a lie in order to have sex.

Which really goes to show that 90% of women and 64% of men lie when taking a sex survey.

(HINDUSTAN TIMES) 22 September 2007:

A survey has shown that rates of sexually transmitted diseases like chlamydia are more common in teenage girls than in women in their twenties. Also, that the same diseases are more common in men in their twenties than teenage boys.

Not surprisingly, the same survey also finds that the annual number of sexual partners is higher in teenage girls and twentysomething males than the other two groups.

The survey however, failed to make the obvious point: men do indeed tend to chase women younger than themselves, women in their 20s are more mature than their male counterparts and nobody, but nobody, is, despite the interest they themselves show in the subject, interested in having sex with teenage boys.

(GRIST) 31 July 2007:

Various surveys have shown that women take the state of the environment more seriously than men do. They are more likely to rate it as a high priority, they vote more on the subject, they volunteer and donate more money to the cause, and they support increased government environmental spending while men support a cut.

Why these differences exist is as yet unknown: speculation ranges from women connecting more with the world that their children will inherit to the influence of the hunter gatherer period. Men were the hunters and wished to conquer part of nature, while women were the gatherers and thus more in tune with long term sustainability.

(ARABIAN BUSINESS) 12 June 2007:

From the new Barclays Wealth survey of who has the money and how they made it comes a confirmation of an idea long rumored to be true but not yet proven. That women are more risk averse than men.

The evolutionary psychologists have long thought it to be true, given both the differences in contributions to child birth and also in the past roles of men and women as hunters and gatherers.

But when looking at where men and women invest, it can be seen that men prefer the riskier alternatives, such as options, derivatives and commodities, while women prefer the safer, if lower yielding, bonds and stocks. The male choices can lead to greater gains but also to higher losses, the women’s to more safety, that is, they prefer less risk.

(MEDICAL NEWS TODAY) 11 May 2007:

The results of the BBC’s large survey of men and women (in 2005) are now finally being tabulated.

Some of the results simply reinforce things already known, such as that men are on average better at spatial recognition, women at verbal fluency. Others are less well known, such as that the average abilities of homosexual men are shifted towards those of heterosexual women and those of lesbians to those of heterosexual men.

What does seem very surprising indeed is that posession of a high sex drive by women increases the attraction to both men and women, while in men a similarly high sex drive increases the attraction to one or the other, men or women.

(SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS) 19 May 2007:

The results of a telephone survey of residents of Santa Clara County are causing some consternation. 4,200 were asked about their weight and whether they were dieting or not. Some 62% of the men reported being overweight or obese as opposed to only 45% of the women.

This is then contrasted with the fact that 45% of the women are dieting while only 35% of the men are.

The simple solution, that dieting works, seems not to have occured to anyone. The sex in which more people diet having fewer overweight or obese people makes perfect sense with that assumption.

(MENSFITNESS.COM) 9 March 2007:

Why do some men shave their body hair? Fifty-four percent of respondents to a Men’s Fitness Sex Survey said they wished they could change their body hair — more than any other physical attribute, including muscularity. But while shaving isn’t for everyone, athletes have been lathering up and blading down for years. In many sports, ”shaving down” can make you faster, safer, and generally more comfortable.  Bicyclists shave in case of a crash because hairy legs grab more asphalt than clean-shaven ones.  Swimmers think shaving makes them faster, and bodybuilders think a clean-shaven body shows off muscular definition better.

(MEN’S HEALTH) November 2005:

Charismatic people are easy to identify:  They’re the ones surrounded by smiling friends.  What makes them so popular is a trickier question, one that the NYU Stern School of Business, along with Tanqueray (yes, the gin) tried to answer with their survey of more than 1000 people.  Women polled for this study named the following as the top five characteristics that constitute social magnetism.

1.  Good sense of humor

2.  Fitting in with different groups

3.  Wit/being a quick thinker

4.  Intelligence

5.  A refreshing, sharp perspective

(REUTERS) 27 September 2006:

It has long been one of the standard jokes about the British that they don’t actually ‘do’ sex, at least in comparison to other Europeans. This image will come under some revision after historical archives have been opened, including the first sex survey done in 1949 (which was at the time considered too scandalous to be revealed). It shows that one in five men had had homosexual experiences, one in five married women sex outside marriage and that prostitution was alive and well.

This shouldn’t really come as all that much of a surprise. After all, despite not talking about it very much, the British have survived down the generations, even contributing to the population of large other areas of the world as well.

(DAILY TELEGRAPH) 20 July 2006:

A survey of 1,941 people across Britain revealed that six percent of women regard “bedroom activities” as being about as exciting as cleaning house. The actual phrase used was that sex is just “like any other household chore.”  A further three percent thought that it was “an irritating annoyance” and two percent that it was only enjoyable for men. A full ten percent of Scottish women equated horizontal dancing with housework and women and men in Wales both reported having more sex than other areas. The question that was not asked (nor answered) was whether this tells us something about British men or British women.

The birth rate in the UK has been falling for decades.