Where Masturbation Rules - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included

Marie Claire, Dec, 2001

A radio program in NEPAL was discontinued this year after it advised women on how to masturbate with vegetables. CHINESE radio sexologist Chen Kai, however, answers plenty of questions on female masturbation (including a recent one about using a frozen cucumber), and Dr. Shirish Malde, a sex consultant in INDIA, says dozens of women call him asking about how to masturbate without breaking their hymens.

Meanwhile, in PERU, 70 percent of men polled say they pleasure themselves--but not a single woman admitted to it. In COLOMBIA, however, 79 percent of women say they masturbate. And in HOLLAND, female masturbation is such a given that popular women's magazine Viva (above) entices new subscribers with a golden vibrator.

BUT WHO'S COUNTING?

WHO'S GETTING A LOT OF SEX

1 Americans (11 times a month)

2 Russians (10.1 times a month)

3 French (10 times a month)

WHO'S GETTING A LITTLE

1 Japanese (3 times a month)

2 Malaysians (5.2 times a month)

3 Chinese (5.8 times a month)

WHO HAS THE MOST SEX PARTNERS IN A LIFETIME

1 French (16.7)

2 Greeks (15)

3 Brazilians (12.5)

WHO HAS THE FEWEST

1 Indians (1.8)

2 Chinese (2.7)

3 Nigerians (3.8)