Sex and Relationships

The global sex survey

The birds do it, the bees do it, but how do the rest of the world do it?

Condom maker Durex questioned over 317,000 people from 41 countries about their sexual habits.

The results confirm that the bedroom champions of the world are the Greeks, clocking up a staggering 138 romps a year - that's once every two and a half days!

The Japanese get it the least - 45 times a year on average, or once every eight days.

Brits come in at number seven, managing a respectable 118 sex sessions a year - once every three days.

Average age when first had sex
People on average have sex for the first time aged 17.3.

Just over a third say they were 16 or under the first time.

People from Iceland are having sex younger than any other country (15.6) followed by the Germans (15.9), Swedes (16.1) and the Danes (16.1).

People in India are the oldest to lose their virginity (19.8) followed by the Vietnamese (19.6), Indonesians (19.1) and the Malaysians (19)

Places where we've had sex
The most common place for adults to have sex outside their bedroom is in the car (50%), followed by toilets (39%), parent's bedroom (36%) and the park (31%).

15% of people have had sex at work, with one in 10 saying they've had sex at school - and 2% have joined the mile high club!

The Americans and Canadians lead the way for favouring sex in front of a camera (both 21%) while 22% of Turks have indulged in extra curricular activity at school.

The number of partners
Globally, people have had an average number of nine sexual partners.

Men have had more sexual partners than women - 10.2 compared with 6.9.

The Turks have had more partners than any other country (14.5), compared with Australians (13.3), New Zealanders (13.2) and Icelanders (13).

Indians have had the fewest sexual partners (3) compared with the Chinese (3.1), the Vietnamese (3.2) and those from Hong Kong (3.7).

Almost two thirds (65%) of people in Hong Kong have had just one sexual partner, compared to 12% in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Greece.