It is easy to feel abnormal when you listen to your friends brag about all the dates they go on, or how much sex they have.
It can make you feel like everyone is doing it except you. The truth is, not everyone’s sex life is as exciting as 50 Shades of Grey.
But social media can make you feel like everyone is out on Tinder dates, while you are sitting at home sipping a cup of tea.
It is in human nature to wonder how much sex everyone else is having.
So, how much sex really is “normal”? Here are the facts.
How much sex does the average person have a week?
It turns out that the amount of sex we think people are having is drastically overestimated.
A survey conducted by Mintel found that only 3% of 2,000 UK adults have sex every day.
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While a recent survey conducted by Kinsey Institute for research in Sex, Reproduction and Gender found that 18 to 29 year-olds are having the most sex.
The rowdiest age group are having sex on average around twice per week.
It is to no ones surprise that the amount of sex people have drops with age.
People aged 30 to 39 are on average having sex around one to two times per week.
Those in the slightly higher age brackets 40 to 49 have sex about once a week.
The survey did not include the ages of 50 and above.
So, it seems like having sex around one to two times per week is the norm.
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How much sex does the average person have in a month?
18 to 29 year-olds have sex around eight times per month.
30 to 39 years old have sex just over six times per month, and 40 to 49 year-olds get saucy an average of five times per month.
Researchers also revealed that 45% of married couples have sex a few times a month, while only 7% of married couples do it more than 16 times a month.
How much sex does the average person have in a year?
On average the 18 to 29-year-olds are having sex around 112 times per year.
Adults aged 30 to 30 will have sex 86 times a year. Those in their forties make love about 69 times a year.
But, the study also differed between single people and couples.
On average, single people romp 49 times per year, while married couple get intimate 98 times a year.
Justin Lehmiller, writing for the Kinsey Institute said: "The basic storyline that has emerged from these studies is that, as we get older, our odds of developing chronic health conditions increases and this, in turn, negatively impacts the frequency and quality of sexual activity.”
The group getting the most sex of all are couples who live together, who are doing the deed a whopping 146 times per year.
How much sex does the average person have in their lifetime?
Mintel found that on average we will have sex 5,778 times in our life.
The study used the national life expectancy of 83 years to come up with the number.
It also revealed that Brits will on average fall in love 6.5 times in their life.