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    Time Out Chicago / Issue 138 : Oct 18–24, 2007
    The Sex Issue

    Chicago bares

    Our sex survey reveals the naked truth about how our city gets busy.

    By Debby Herbenick

    Was it good for you?
    50% of men and women have received anal sex

    More than half of you (55 percent) very much enjoy performing oral sex, which is good because it sucks when you’re trying to enjoy receiving and your partner looks like he’d rather be watching Flight of the Conchords. Only 4 percent say that giving does nothing for you. More folks (including some of the lazy nongivers) were enthusiastic about receiving it—66 percent enjoyed it very much, only 1 percent not at all, and the rest were in between liking it somewhat or a little. About half of you had ever received anal sex and, of those who had ever gone there, one fifth said they enjoyed it very much. More lube might help the next time. Or a smaller partner. Or not being drunk when you think it’s a good idea.

    Prostate of the union

    If you ask them around their friends, guys often act all weird about the prostate. Like, “Who would want to go down there? Dude, no way!” But when you get them in private—or when you get their partners in private—the stories come out. So we asked you about prostate massage and found that nearly half (43 percent) of you tried it—and liked it. A full quarter of you were prostate-curious. The remaining third were evenly split between those who know what they’re missing (tried it and not into it), and those who don’t (never done it and say it’ll never be on the menu).

    Hair’s the deal

    Two thirds of you groom things down there just enough to avoid oral-sex messiness, while 13 percent of you rock it Telly Savalas–style in your nether regions. The rest of you let it run wild like nature intended, which may mean your partners are getting in their daily flossing. Bravo!









    Faux finish
    26% of women said they had faked orgasm in the past month

    While we’re talking about pleasure and enjoyment, let’s talk about pretending to have pleasure or enjoyment: 26 percent of women said that they had faked orgasm in the past month. Then again, so did 15 percent of the men. Most people don’t believe it when I tell them that men fake, but scientific research studies suggest that about 20 to 30 percent of men have faked, and even here in Chicago it looks like we’ve got some guys throwing empty condoms into the bin or making a pretend “O” face. Which is all fine, but the same advice goes for both women and men—if you keep pretending you like it, your partner will keep doing the same, horrible, unpleasurable thing.

    Going public
    64% said they’d had sex in the open

    At 64 percent, men and women were equally likely to say that they’d had sex in the open (check out some real public sex stories on page 16). Rarely did the cops get involved (4 percent of women, 1 percent of men). But what about photographic evidence? In the age of digital cameras, you don’t have to worry (or, I suppose, get psyched about) what the dude who develops your film will think of you. Thirty-six percent of women and 27 percent of men said they’d taken pictures during sex with a partner. Twenty percent of women and 15 percent of men had made their own sex videos. Shocker, but no women were ever asked by their partner to destroy their sex tapes. Nine percent of men, however, were asked to get rid of the evidence—and 3 percent lied to their partner and secretly kept the video. Which means you might indeed be on XTube.

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