By the Numbers Archive

Menstuff® has compiled statistics on various men's issues and will present new numbers each month. This section is an archive of a monthly column featured daily on our homepage.

Do You Ever Fantasize about Someone Else During Sex?
Do You Read While in the Bathroom?
Do You Refer to Your Mate by Any Special or Pet Name?
Do You Sleep in the Nude, in Pajamas, in Underwear or Something Else?
Do You Wash Your Hands in a Public Bathroom after Using the Facilities?  Do You Wash Your Hands if You are Alone in the Public Bathroom?
Has Anyone Ever Inadvertently Entered the Room When You Were Having Sex?
Have You Ever Made Love with Someone Older/Younger?
How Often do You Initiate Lovemaking Session, on Average?
If the Phone Rings During the Height of Sex, What are Your More Likely to Do?
If You Have a Pet, Do You Let It Stay in the Room When You Are Having Sex?
Myth # 281: Medical Research is Biased Against Women
What one part of your body do you consider your best?
What one part of your body do you consider your worst?
While Wearing Jockey Shorts, Do Men Pee Through the Fly-Hole, Over the Top, or Under the Leg?
Would You Be Embarrassed to Buy Condoms from a Salesperson of the Other Sex?

If the Phone Rings During the Height of Sex, What are Your More Likely to Do?

Would You Be Embarrassed to Buy Condoms from a Salesperson of the Other Sex?

Those most reluctant to buy condoms from the other sex are a study in contrasts, as shown by the following profile:

Has Anyone Ever Inadvertently Entered the Room When You Were Having Sex?

If You Have a Pet, Do You Let It Stay in the Room When You Are Having Sex?

What Do We Do with Our Pets When Me Make Love?

66% of pet owners do, indeed, let their pets stay in the room when they are making love. And it's overwhelmingly the youngest surveyed of each sex who are willing to put up with this additional audience. Of those who responded, 41% have dogs, 39% have cats, 11% have birds, and the rest have gerbils, snakes, fish, and other assorted critters.

More women (37%) than men (29%) allow their pets to stay on the bed while making love. Young women 18-29 are by far the nicest when it comes to granting this privilege, while their male counterparts seem to be the most territorial. This must lead to a great many dogfights in the bedroom, and gives new meaning to the term "petting."

Men, if you don't like pets in the room, be wary of the following kind of woman, who just adores having her pet in the bedroom. She's apt to be a small, left-handed woman with short hair, and she's a mother.

Women, the men who love pets in the boudoir are tall, long-haired, and right-handed. They claim to be slightly overweight and have no children of their own.

Source: Do You Do It with the Lights On?

Do You Read While in the Bathroom?

More men than women are bathroom readers - explaining why you see so many male coworkers walking away from their desks with a newspaper under their arms. And it's the high-school-educated bunch who are 12% more apt to grap a piece of the paper than their college counterparts.

While Wearing Jockey Shorts, Do Men Pee Through the Fly-Hole, Over the Top, or Under the Leg?

Those that are under-the-leg acrobats tend to be left-handed, high-school-educated individuals who make over $25,000. The exception to this rule? One of the authors, who is a right-handed senior citizen with a college degree, and who is decidedly lazy.

Do You Refer to Your Mate by Any Special or Pet Name?

Women Use: Boogie, Brisket Face, Bunkie, Cuddles, Dear, Dreamboat, George, Honey, Honeybunch, Moron, Muttonchop, Romeo, Stud, Studley, Stupid, Sweet Pea, Tarzan.

Do you have some other favorites?  Use the e-mail address at the bottom of this page and send them to us.

Do You Ever Fantasize about Someone Else During Sex?

Anyone care to explain why men over 55 have a tendency not to dream (only 39%, compared to 61% for the younger men), while women who reach that same age bracket start fantasizing more than their younger counterparts?

The upper-income earners ($25,000 +) dream more than the lower-income earners (56 to 44%), while those who do not have a college degree fantasize more than those who do (59 to 41%).

A few more juicy tidbits: those couples who do not have children dream less tha n those who do have children; men who tell us that they are overweight fantasize more than those who are average or underweight; women with short hair fantasize more than those with long hair; and lefties fantasize more than righties!

Do You Wash Your Hands in a Public Bathroom after Using the Facilities?  Do You Wash Your Hands if You are Alone in the Public Bathroom?

Do You Sleep in the Nude, in Pajamas, in Underwear or Something Else?

Most women prefer to wear PJs, but what we're intrigued by is the "something else" that 27% of women claim to put on. Would it be some type of silky teddy - or something else, like her man's top shirt?!

Those women who sleep in the nude are likely to be tall and slender and have no children who could creep in on them. Like the women, the bare-it-all men are without kids, but they claim to be a bit overweight and are short in stature.

How Often do You Initiate Lovemaking Session, on Average?

The survey does uncover some female instigators out there. 7% of the women surveyed say they initiate lovemaking 100% of the time, with the majority of those women belonging in the 30-to-54 group. They might welcome an introduction to the 13% of men who also must always begin the lovemaking in their household.

And now we present the clues to the assertive women, or those who initiate lovemaking 70 to 90% of the time. She's a high-school-educated woman who earns under $25,000. Right-handed, she has short hair, claims to be a bit overweight, is small in stature, and has lots of kids.

Those men who initiate sex less than 20 percent of the time seem to be under $25,000 earners with a college education, and are left-handed with long hair. Tall and skinny, they don't have any children. (That doesn't surprise us!)

What one part of your body do you consider your best?

What one part of your body do you consider your worst?

Myth # 281: Medical Research is Biased Against Women

NIH Gender-Specific Research: As early as 1988, women's health was allocated 9.7% of the NIH research budget, compared to only 4.4% for men's health, with the remaining 85.9% going to research that benefited both sexes (1). By 1996, women's health funding had soared to 16.0%, with men's health only 5.7% of the total (2). Even more troubling is the declining male participation in NIH research. By Fiscal Year 1996, only 36.3% of NIH study participants were men (3).

The Heart Disease Controversy: Men's risk of dying of heart disease has long been almost twice that of women (4). True, women did not represent 50% of enrollees in the early heart disease studies. But after the 1961 thalidomide tragedy that maimed 12,000 infants, women were of no mind to volunteer for risky drug trials. So is it fair to say that females were "excluded" from clinical research? As the Institute of Medicine explained, "The literature is inconclusive about whether women have been excluded or importantly underrepresented in clinical trials" (5). Nonetheless, more than half of all participants in the Framingham Heart Study, which started in the early 1950s, were female. And beginning in 1970, women were equally represented in high blood pressure trials (6). By 1996, women's heart and lung disease research was funded to the tune of $220 million, compared to only $199 million for men (7). And men still face twice the risk of death.

Slighted by Cancer Research: In the earliest analysis of enrollment by gender, men composed only 40% of adults recruited into cancer trials (8), despite the fact that men's cancer death rates were almost 50% higher than women (4). This disparity has worsened over time, as revealed by a comparison of funding for breast and prostate cancer research. Each year, more people are diagnosed with prostate cancer than breast cancer. In 1991, the National Institutes of Health spent $92.7 million on breast cancer research, compared to $13.8 million on prostate cancer (9). Despite all the efforts to increase prostate cancer funding, the gap only widened during the following years: By 1998, $348.6 million went to breast cancer, while prostate cancer garnered only $89.5 million.

A Troubling Disparity, Any Way You Count It: In cancer research, prostate cancer has always been dramatically underfunded, and men have long been underrepresented in clinical trials. Any way you look at it—--sex-specific budget allocations, declining male participation in NIH studies, or comparative risk of death—--over the past decade, men's health has been shortchanged by medical research.

References:
1. NIH Advisory Committee on Women's Health Issues: NIH Support for Research on Women's and Men's Health Issues, Fiscal Years 1988, 1989, and 1990. NIH Publication No. 92-3456.
2. Office of Research on Women's Health: NIH Support for Research on Women's Health Issues, FY 1995-96, Table 11.
3. Office of Research on Women's Health: Implementation of the NIH Guidelines on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research, December 1998.
4. Department of Health and Human Services: Health, United States, 1998, Table 31.
5. Bennett JC: Inclusion of women in clinical trials. N Engl J Med 1993; 329: 288-291.
6. Young K, Satel S: The myth of gender bias in medicine. Washington, DC: Women's Freedom Network, 1997, p. 6.
7. Office of Research on Women's Health: NIH Support for Research on Women's Health Issues, Fiscal Years 1995 and 1996. Table 10. 8. Ungerleider RS, Friedman MA: Sex, trials, and datatapes. J National Cancer Institute 1991; 83: 16-17.
9. National Cancer Institute: Research Dollars by Various Cancers. www.nci.nih.gov/public/factbk97/varican.htm

Have You Ever Made Love with Someone Older/Younger?

On the distaff side, women clearly go for older men as 90 percent have made love to men 10 years older, and 32 percent have made love to men 20 years older. Only 19 percent of women have made love to a man 10 years their junior. Seems that the majority of women still prefer older men!

We are particularly intrigued by the possibilities of men 18-29 years old making love to women 20 years younger. Whatever happened to just playing with Barbie dolls and GI Joes? Or is it just that some of our respondents went a little overboard in trying to impress?

Here is a profile of the more likely lovers by sex and age:

Made Love to Someone 10 Years Younger.
Men: Under $25,000, high-school education, right-handed.
Women: Under $25,000, college education, left-handed.

Myth # 281: Medical Research is Biased Against Women.
Men: $25,000+ high-school education, long-haired.
Women: Under $25,000, college education, left-handed.

Made Love o Someone 20 Years Younger:
Men: $25,000+, high-school education, thin, no kids
Women: Under $25,000, college education, short, left-handed

Made Love to Someone 20 Years Older:
Men: Under $25,000, college education, short-haired, tall.
Women: $25,000+, college education, short, left-handed.

This question provoked quite a response from our respondents. "I am 81 years old, and I very much enjoy making love to my girlfriend, who is 37 years old. P.S. She says I am the best lover she has ever had."

"I am a 52-year-old divorcee who finds herself very much attracted to young men - the younger the better. Recently I made love to a 17-year-old for five nonstop hours."

"I am a 51-year-old male who has been madly in love with a woman who is now 72 years old. We have been together for the past 15 years and she is the best thing that has ever happened to me since my divorce from a woman only two years younger than me."

"As a 22-year-old senior at a major university in the south, I have found that the male students just do not satisfy me sexually or intellectually. Therefore, I have been dating one of the professors, who is 53 years old. He is a wonderful lover and intellect and we have many things in common." Source: Do You Do It with the Lights On?

Contact: Men's Health America, www.egroups.com/group/menshealth/

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