Most frequent sexual activity
We have already noted the most frequent orgasms for men and women. Obviously orgasmic
frequency is related
to coitus but only partly: there are other ways in which a person can come to climax. Kinsey
found that some
married couples were having sexual intercourse as many as twenty-nine times a week, i.e.
couples in the 21-25
year age group. By the age of fifty, "maximum frequency" had dropped to around 14 times a
week. And it has
also been noted that in some exceptional cases, from the youngest lovers to those around forty
years of age -
"there were some individuals who were having coitus in their marriages on an average of four
times a day, every
day in the week. By the age of fifty-five no couples in the Kinsey sample were having coitus
more frequently than
seven or eight times a week. During one family planning trial in Britain one woman logged on
her specially
provided record that she had intercourse ninety-one times in one month - "a figure considered
so extraordinary
that it was left out of the final calculation in case it ruined the figures for average frequency of
copulation (about
once every fourth day)". In their extensive cross-cultural study, Ford and Beach noted that
Thonga males
copulate with 3 or 4 wives in a single night; and Chegga men are supposed to have intercourse
as many as ten
times a night. But does orgasm occur in each copulation - "the data unfortunately permit no
definitive
statements."