Malaysians rank sixth fastest in love-making

NST: KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians spend an average of 19.9 minutes when they make love.
Hardly the stuff romance novels are made of, they ranked sixth quickest in the world in terms of time spent in a love-making session.
However, if it’s any consolation, the average time spent is above the global average of 18.3 minutes.
India’s lovers were the world’s quickest, spending only 13.2 minutes per session.
Nigeria once again topped the ranking on a leisurely 23 minutes.
Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand and Australia were all well below the world average time.
Malaysians were just a heartbeat ahead of China’s lovers who took 20 minutes.
This was the findings from the "Global Sexual Wellbeing Survey" by condom-maker Durex. It was revealed at the ongoing World Congress on Sexual Health in Sydney, Australia.
More than 26,000 people from 26 countries were screened online by global research firm Harris Interactive from August to September last year.
Durex’s local distributor SSL Healthcare Malaysia general manager Voong King Yee said sex played a fundamental role in the physical and emotional well-being of a person.
The survey found two in five (or 38 per cent) of the 1,026 Malaysians polled were fully satisfied with their sex lives.
Forty per cent of Malaysian women were completely satisfied compared with 37 per cent of their male counterparts.
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"Seven in 10 (74 per cent) of the Malaysians surveyed said the situation could be remedied by injecting some old-fashioned love, tenderness, adventure and romance.
"Two-thirds (64 per cent) like more intimacy and better communication with their partners," said Voong.
Even in the "country of romance", France, they do not get it right all the time. Only 25 per cent said they were satisfied with their sex lives.
Nigerians, on the other hand, know something others don’t. They have the most people (67 per cent) satisfied with their sex lives, followed by Mexicans (63 per cent) and Indians (61 per cent).
The survey found that Malaysians have sex 115 times a year compared with the global average of 103.
The Greeks made an Olympian effort of 164 times, with Brazilians the next most amorous at 145, followed by the Poles and Russians (both 143) and Indians with 130.
The survey also found that Asians were least satisfied with their sex lives.
Australia’s Bond University sex expert Gabrielle Morrissey said it reflected cultural issues relating to sex in Asia. "Work is more important than sex in many Asian countries."