The soft findings in sex survey

NST: KUALA LUMPUR: Four in 10 men cannot achieve a full erection while three in 10 women in Malaysia professed to wanting better sex.
This is revealed in a survey conducted by pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc.
The survey also showed that 62 per cent of men and 73 per cent of women respondents were less than very or completely satisfied with sex.
The survey was conducted in 13 Asia Pacific countries.
A total of 102 men and 100 women in Malaysia responded to the survey online from May to July last year.
Survey consultant Dr Rosie King said some men claimed that their penis was not "completely hard and fully rigid" during sexual activity.
"They scored about grade one to three on the Erection Hardness Score (EHS), which meant that they engaged in less sexual intercourse compared to men with optimal hardness.
"And for men, erection hardness, rather than size, is linked to greater sex satisfaction," she said when announcing the Asia-Pacific Sexual Health and Overall Wellness Survey (Malaysia results) yesterday.
Dr King said the EHS, developed by the European Association of Urology, graded erection hardness from one to four to provide a simple guide. Grade four is best.
"We can say that grade one is only as hard as tofu, followed by peeled banana and unpeeled banana, while grade four is as hard as cucumber," she said to the laughter of those present.
The sex therapist and relationship counselor said that social burdens, including stress, lack of confidence and intimacy, were the reasons for low EHS.
"But clinical studies show that medical therapy and positive perceptions can help a man improve his erection hardness and sex satisfaction," she added.
On Malaysian women, Dr King said 30 per cent of respondents said they were "very highly" or "highly" interested in having better sexual experience.
"Women here consider sex as more important, compared with other countries," Dr King said.
They ranked sex in 14th place out of 17 in a list of life priorities compared with women in other countries, who ranked sex as the last or second last priority.
"A high number of women (58 per cent of respondents) who are 'completely' or 'very satisfied' with sex also describe their health as 'excellent' or 'very good'."
She said Malaysians continued to find sex important even as they grew older.
Malaysia ranked seventh among the 13 countries surveyed in terms of sexual satisfaction.
India scored the highest and Japan has the lowest rate of satisfaction.