Sorry for not including an image in this post. I doubt my husband would be game for posing.
First of all, I would like to apologize for the lack of new material here on Married With Toddlers. Even though I have been busy writing for other outlets, I still plan to blog regularly on this platform.
Currently I am writing an article on livening up a couple’s sex life after the “miracle of birth”. While researching facts for the piece I came across some interesting statistics that I thought many of you would appreciate.
Research conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago:
- The average married couple (with or without children) has sex a little over once a week (68.5 times a year).
- Couples who have sex less than 10/year are considered to be in a “no sex/low sex” relationship. About 20% of couples report being in this category.
According to Dr. Barry McCarthy:
- Couples that are happy with sex life rate sex as only 15% of their overall martial happiness.
- Couples where at least one partner is sexually unsatisfied report sex life to make up 85% of their overall marital happiness.
A survey of 500 women by Prima Magazine found:
- The average childless couple has sex 10/month.
- The average pregnant couple has sex 5/month.
- The average couple has sex 4/month after the baby is born.
Depressed yet?
I definitely think our sexual behavior is a little harder to... monitor. I mean, we have hot streaks and cold streaks. We'll have sex every day for a week and a half, and then sometimes we'll realize that we haven't had sex in six weeks without any sort of comment.
ReplyDeleteBut I think neither of us is exactly unsatisfied. And I'd definitely point out that not all sex is GOOD sex. I think a better metric would be the number of orgasms achieved in each year. :)