How long do people usually have sex?

If you are not a scientist, after a brief intimate relationship you might wonder at the end of the bed, how long does sex usually last?

A scientist might formulate a question similar to a more abstract term, namely: What is the average time needed to get ejaculation (intravaginal) or can it be said to be administering drugs through the vagina?

I understand that sex is more than an attempt to insert a penis into the vagina so that ejaculation occurs, but other things related to sex are not always easy to define (kissing? Rubbing?). To keep this discussion simple and specific, we will focus on ejaculation.

Measuring the average time to ejaculate is not something that can be done directly. Maybe you think what about asking people how long does it take to ejaculate? There are at least two main problems in such an approach. First, people tend to be biased in a long time in estimating the time of ejaculation, because socially you are expected to survive all night.

Another problem is that people don't usually know how much time they have when having sex. It's not unusual for people to have sex while watching the clock next to the bed, and it may be difficult to estimate the time when making love without being helped by someone else.

What research shows?

The best research so far counts the average time of ejaculation in 500 couples from all countries who count their lovemaking time for four weeks using a stopwatch.

It sounds strange, participants press the "start" button when there is penetration and press the "stop" button when ejaculating. You might think this would damage the mood, and not fully reflect the natural thing. But science is rarely perfect, and the research above is the best we have found so far.

So what do scientists find? The most surprising results show there are many variations of time. The average time needed for each partner (taken on average during their sex) ranges from 33 seconds to 44 minutes. That means 80 times the difference.

So it is quite clear that there is no normal amount of time to measure body relationships. Even so, the average time for all the pairs is 5.5 minutes. This means if you line up with 500 couples who have a short to long time, the pair in the middle row has an average time of 5.5 minutes when they do it.

There is another interesting thing from the research above. For example, condom use does not affect time, nor does the factor of whether a man has been circumcised or not, which questions the old understanding that circumcision has an effect on penile sensitivity and a relationship with sexual endurance.

Country of origin of the spouse also has no effect, except if they come from Turkey, the time for which the relationship is very short is 3.8 minutes compared to couples from other countries (Netherlands, Spain, England, and America). Another surprising thing is the fact that the older the partner, the shorter the love time, different from the general understanding (which may be made by older men).

Why do we have to have sex for a long time?

As a researcher, all the talk about how long sex lasts makes me wonder: Why does sexual intercourse take time? All body relationships aim to insert sperm into the vagina. Then what is the excitement on the bed? Instead of inserting and removing the penis hundreds of times when intercourse, why not just put it in once and after that we can spend our time drinking fruit juice?

Besides pleasant relationships, does sex have a biological purpose?
Before you answer, that it's fun !, keep in mind that the evolutionary process doesn't care about fun things — the evolutionary process of designing everything becomes fun just because it helps our ancestors pass on their genes to future generations. For example, even though we enjoy food, we won't chew food for 5 minutes, just because we like it, it will make eating inefficient, and we evolve to understand that chewing food for too long is disgusting.

Why we make love for long is a complicated question and there are no clear answers, but the clue may lie in the shape of the penis itself. Using the vagina, penis and artificial sperm that the tip of the head of the penis actually takes sperm that was previously in the vagina.

This shows that repetitive movement of the penis actually aims to remove male sperm before ejaculating, to ensure that their sperm first arrives at the egg. This then explains why men feel pain when they push their penis back in after ejaculation, because that means the movement is at risk of removing their own sperm.

My advice is not to think too much when making love, essentially enjoying sex with your partner.