Sexual Intercourse – Top Ten Facts

Sexual intercourse is also known as copulation, coitus, coition, consummation, fornication, mating, penetration and sexual union. The popular slang that is considered vulgar includes – Bang, bonking, fucking, frig, hump, lay, quickie, ride, screw and shag

1. There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

2. The Durex – World Sex Survey indicates that globally we are having sex -

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103 times per year, or
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1.98 times per week, or
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0.28 times per day.

3. Certain foods can boost your sex drive and the list includes – lean meat, Grains, Watermelon, Pumpkin Seeds, Almonds, Bananas, Strawberries, Mangos, Avocado, Chilies, Basil, Cardamom, Figs, Pepper, Champagne, Oysters, Chocolate, Truffles, Caviar and Whipped Cream.

4. Sex can burn about 70-120 calories for a 130 pound woman, and 77 to 155 calories for a 170 pound man every hour.

5. The Americans and Greeks top the maximum number of sexual intercourses – they do it 124 and 117 times respectively a year. The Indian do it only 76 times a year but the Japanese men seem to be the least interested and only do it 36 times.

6. Sleep studies show that men have about nine erections during a night’s sleep – regardless of what they dream.

7. In 2004 porno star Lisa Sparxxx created a very unusual world record – she had sex with 919 men in 24 hours.

8. There are over 4.2 million porn websites in the world and growing everyday with millions of videos depicting sexual intercourse in various Kama-Sutra postures.

9. The ancient Sanskrit Hindu book – Kama Sutra describes a total of 64 sexual positions for making love and sexual intercourse. These are very graphically depicted in the sculptures of Khajuraho and Konark Temple. He describes making love as “divine union”.

10. In Africa one of the common myths that prevailed has been that sexual intercourse with a Virgin can cure AIDS. Deflowering Virgins has been popular in the past too so much so that Fatafehi Paulah, King of Tonga in the 17th century – deflowered 10 virgins a day and during his entire reign had slept with 37,800 virgins.

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Alarming Facts about Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs)

1. The global annual cost of RTA is almost 230 billion dollars.
2. 1.2 million people Die every year due to Road Traffic Accidents (RTA).
3. Every day, there are 3300 deaths and 6600 serious injuries on the road in the world.
4. Approximately 850,000 deaths occur in those who are under 45 years of age in developing countries and are the sole bread-winners for their families.
5. Road Traffic Accidents cause injury to about 50 million people in the world.
6. Every tenth bed in the hospital is occupied by an accident victim.
7. The average cost of RTA in developing countries is estimated at 65 billion dollars,
8. Trauma related death occurs in India every 1.9 minutes.
9. About 120,000 people die on the road in India every year and a majority of them are pedestrians.
10. 1.27 Million People in India sustain serious injuries due to RTA.
11. Although India has only 1% of the world’s motor vehicles, but it accounts for 6% of the total global RTA deaths.
12. The cost of these accidents and death is Rs.550 Crores or 12.5 billion dollars every year.
13. A majority of major accident survivors are either confined to the bed or wheel chair bound for the rest of their lives due to brain injury or spinal cord injury.
14. Alcohol intoxication causing RTA is present in 15-20% of all traffic accidents.
15. The best chance of survival from a serious RTA victim is, if they are brought into the casualty department within the first hour of trauma or the so called Golden hour.

References

Madan VS, Road Traffic Accidents: Emerging Epidemic, Indian Journal of Neurotrauma (IJNT1) 2006, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-3

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