The scientific data that are sometimes offered to us have a relative veracity, since people tend to lie quite often .

We do not tell the whole truth, especially on those subjects that make us uncomfortable or on which there is a cultural taboo. One of the most obvious is sex, where “normality” is a blurred concept. But from time to time some scientific study appears that throws some light on the question of how we relate to the other sex and to ourselves.

Smart people masturbate more often, study reveals

A recent investigation carried out in the United States has revealed a curious correlation between two variables: the level of studies of a person and the frequency of masturbation, finding that it is the people with greater educational knowledge who tend to masturbate more frequently .

This interesting and controversial study has been conducted by the National School of Health and Sexual Behavior led by sexual behavior psychologist Debby Herbenick, a leading researcher at the Kinsey Institute in the United States of America. She has led this research, finding that people with higher academic levels tend to masturbate more often.

According to the Catalan scientist Pere Estupinyà in his book S=EX2 , the research was entirely paid for by a well-known condom corporation, and consisted of carrying out surveys on a total of 6 people.The research was carried out by a well-known condom corporation and involved surveys of a total of 6,000 rigorously selected US citizens between the ages of 14 and 90, with extensive follow-up of the participants , one of the most comprehensive studies of how human beings experience sex in today’s societies . The data and results of these surveys have been the object of much attention.

Research results

As revealed by the scrutiny of the surveys, 71.5% of women between 25 and 29 years old admit to having masturbated during the last year . A more modest figure, 46.5%, are women between 60 and 69 years old who claim to have done so in the past 365 days.

Going into slightly older ages, such as people over 70, the study reported that 33% say they have masturbated in the past year; a pretty high number considering the popular belief that sex is not present in the lives of older people.

It seems that people with better training practice more onanism

Other conclusions of the study were, for example, the correlation between the academic level of the subject and the correlation of this variable with the frequency of masturbation. As the headline says, it seems that there is a tendency for the higher the level of education, the more habitual the individual is to masturbate .

On the other hand, the survey also showed that 25% of men and only 5% of women confess to having consulted pornographic content on the Internet during the last month. Another interesting fact, which has to do with protection in sexual relations, is that 28% of men claim to have lost their erection when they were about to put on a condom in at least one of their last three sexual encounters.

Bibliographic references:

  • Original study: http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/resources/FAQ.html