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1

Birds do it, bees to it – and, according to the World Health Organisation, how many (human) sex acts take place each day?

 

1 Around a million

2 Ten million – unless it's the weekend

3 More than 100 million

4 More than 100 billion

 

2

Some long for more ‘innocent' times. According to a 2004 survey, what's the average age (globally) when young people first have sex?

 

1 By the time they're 12

2 Around 16 ½

3 When they turn 18

4 In their early twenties

 

3

If a young person is highly intelligent, is that person likely to have sex earlier or later than his or her averagely intelligent counterparts?

 

1 Later – by several years

2 Earlier – the same as the less intelligent

3 It makes no difference

4 They will vow abstinence until they are married

 

4

Globally, people are having sex an average of 103 times a year, but where are you likely to be getting it most – 137 times a year on average?

 

1 The USA

2 Japan

3 France

4 Sweden

 

5

According to surveys, men have had more sexual partners than women, though quite how that works out… How many partners has the average Brit (man or woman) had?

 

1 Two or three

2 Around ten

3 Over fifty

4 Over a hundred

 

6

Better than sex? According to one popular women's magazine survey, how many women would rather eat chocolate than have sex?

 

1 None at all

2 About one in ten

3 A staggering 70%

4 All except the truly depraved

 

7

In the western world, to judge by the (state-by-state) statistics, what is the likely effect of children and adolescents being given more sex education at a younger age?

 

1 Teenage pregnancy rates are lower

2 Teenage pregnancy rates are higher

3 Teenage pregnancy rates are no different

4 Teenagers vow sexual abstinence

 

8

The law has been sticking its nose into people's love lives for millennia. In UK law, which of the following sexual acts is illegal?

 

1 Kissing with tongues below the age of consent (16)

2 Full anal sex between the ages of 16 and 18

3 Sex on Sunday – a medieval law, never repealed

4 Unintentional transmission of an STI to another person

 

9

Who wasn't doing it? Which of the following thinkers and writers is not thought to have gone to his grave a virgin?

 

1 Isaac Newton – he of gravitational fame

2 Hans Christian Andersen – author of, among others, ‘The Ugly Duckling'

3 Henry Miller – author of ‘Tropic of Cancer'

4 Lewis Carroll – author of ‘ Alice in Wonderland'

 

10

There are those who say they won't do it. Under the ‘silver ring thing' scheme, young people vow no sex before marriage. How many of those break the vow?

 

1 Very few – 1 in 100

2 Not that many – 1 in 10

3 A lot – almost half

4 It's staggering – almost 90%

 

 

 

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