• The Egyptian 'Ankh' , is actually a symbol representing the male and female sex organs.
• Everyday, 200 million couples around the world have sex, which is about over 2000 couples at any given moment.
• Women are most likely to want to have sex when they are ovulating.
• It was during the Victorian era that the formerly nude Cupid was redesigned as wearing a skirt.
• 30% of women over the age of 80 still have sexual intercourse either with their spouse or boyfriends.
• Mosquitoes, which mate in the air perform a sex act that lasts only 2 seconds.
• Women with a Ph.D. are twice as likely to be interested in a one-night stand than those with only a Bachelor's degree.
• Fellatio ranks as the number one sexual act desired by heterosexual men.
• Australian women have sex on the first date more than women the same age in the USA and Canada.
• It’s illegal to have sex without a condom in Nevada. (More on Sex Laws later).
• Today, Japan leads the world in condom use. Like cosmetics, they're sold door to door, by women.
• More Americans lose their virginity in June than in any other month (must be all those weddings and prom nights).
• A man’s penis not only shrinks during cold weather but also from nonsexual excitement like when his favorite football team scores a touchdown, etc.
• Wyoming’s Grand Tetons mountain range literally means “Big Tits”.
• In the original Grimm fairly tale of 'Sleeping Beauty', the Prince rapes her while she sleeps and then leaves before she wakes up. (Good thing that was rewritten!)
• The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to exercise naked, which often was done in ancient Greece.
• White women and those women with a college degree, when asked said they were more receptive to anal sex than women without college educations.
• The word avocado comes from the Spanish word aguacate which is derived from the Aztec word ahuacati which means testicle.
• The original representation of Cupid by the Greeks was that of a beautiful young boy whose naked form was considered to be the embodiment of sexual love.
• The first condoms in the US were made from vulcanized rubber in the 1870s. They were expensive and annoyingly thick and meant to be reused.
• Women who went to college are more likely to enjoy both the giving and receiving of oral sex than high school dropouts. (Amazing what one learns in college).
• About 1% of the adult female population are able to achieve orgasm solely through breast stimulation.
• 14% of males said that they did not enjoy sex the first time.
• 60% of women say they did not enjoy sex their first time.
• Minks have intercourse that lasts an average of eight hours.
• The chimpanzee holds the record for the quickest mammal sexual intercourse session at an average of three seconds.
• Most turkeys and giraffes are bisexual.
• An adult gorilla's penis is only two inches long.
• Humans, fish and porpoises share a common sexual practice -- fellatio
• The penis of a dragonfly is shaped like a shovel, and has the ability to scoop out a male rivals semen.
• The word pornography comes from the Greek meaning the “writings of prostitutes”.
• In Ancient Greece, women would expose their vaginas to ward off storms at sea.
• In ancient Greece and Rome, dildos were made out of animal horns, gold, silver, ivory and glass.
• While nudity was considered commonplace to the ancient Greeks, a man was considered indecent if he had an exposed erection.
• Both humans and porpoises have one social sex practice in common - group sex.
• The penguin only has one single orgasm in a year.
• The rhinoceros has a penis about two feet long.
• The Black Widow spider eats her mate during or after sex.
• A bull can inseminate 300 cows from one single ejaculation.
• The sperm of a mouse is actually longer than the sperm of an elephant.
• Sex education was first introduced into English schools in 1889.
• Cleopatra invented her own diaphragm from camel's poop.
• Eating the heart of a male Partridge was the cure for impotence in ancient Babylon.
• The left testicle usually hangs lower than the right for right-handed men. The opposite is true for lefties.
• It takes a sperm one hour to swim seven inches.
• The initial spurt of ejaculate travels at 28 miles per hour. By way of comparison, the world record for the 100 yard dash is 27.1 miles per hour.
• Honking of car horns for a couple that just got married is an old superstition to insure great sex.
• The most successful X-rated movie of all time is 'Deep Throat'. It cost approximately $25,000 to make (according to the FBI) and has earned more than $600 million dollars.
• Egyptians inserted stones into their vagina to prevent pregnancy. (It worked kind of like the modern IUD by preventing implantation).
• In Medieval France unfaithful wives were made to chase a chicken through town while naked.
• Napoleon's penis was sold to an American Urologist for $40,000
• Seventy percent of women would rather have chocolate than sex. (Poll taken in a 1995 popular women’s magazine).
• The same chemical responsible for the ecstatic highs of love and sexual attraction, phenylethylamine, is also found in chocolate. (There’s the answer now).
• The male fetus is capable of attaining an erection during the last trimester.
• A survey conducted by Masters and Johnson in the early 1980s revealed that the third-most frequent fantasy amongst both homosexual men and women was a heterosexual encounter.
• According to the Kinsey Institute, half of the men raised on farms have had a sexual encounter with an animal.
• Among sexually active adults, lesbians have the lowest incidence of sexually transmitted diseases.
• The average bra is designed to last for only 180 days of use.
• The sperm of a mouse is actually longer than the sperm of an elephant, when viewed under a microscope of course.
• Casanova boasted that he made love to the same woman twelve times in one day.
• According to Playboy, the most popular sexual aid is erotic literature.
• One of the reasons male deer rub their antlers on a tree or the ground is to masturbate.
• Approximately one out of every two hundred women is born with an extra nipple.
• A small flaccid penis generally has a greater percentage increase during erection than a larger flaccid penis.
• In general, women who are housewives are more faithful than working women. (Sure, who do they meet?) :-)
• The practice of autoerotic asphyxiation (temporarily suffocating or strangling yourself while masturbating) takes the lives of 250 to a thousand people each year.
• A “buckle bunny” is a woman who goes to rodeos with the intent of having sex with a rodeo cowboy.
• Human testicles can increase in size by 50% when a man is aroused.
• The word "sex" was coined in 1382.
• A parthenologist is someone who specializes in the study of virgins and virginity.
• A capon is a castrated rooster. They are said to have more tender meat when cooked and that’s why they cost more.
• Two of the main causes of temporary impotence are tight pants and prolonged cigarette smoking.
• The first public strip-tease dance was performed in Paris in 1894.
• In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit. Huh?
• In Newcastle, Wyoming, an ordinance specifically bans couples from having sex while standing in a store’s walk-in meat freezer.
• It is illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to pose for a pornographic magazine, movie or web site in the USA.
• Oral and anal sex are illegal in many states in the US, between both homosexual and heterosexual people.
• The hymen is named after the Greek God Hymenaeus -- the God of marriage and weddings.
• A pig’s orgasm lasts for about 30 minutes.
• In 2004, a sex toy was introduced that does not require batteries: it connects to a USB port.
• 8.5 billion condoms are produced every year worldwide.
• Graham crackers were once believed (and in some cases used) to reduce sexual arousal and desire.
• Many ancient sexual positions are physically impossible for most people

Some Sexual Laws and History

• The Romans would crush a first time rapist’s gonads between two stones.
• It’s illegal to have sex with a corpse anywhere in the United States.
• In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it’s against the law to have sex with a truck driver in a toll booth.
• In Fairbanks, Alaska it’s illegal for moose to have sex on the city sidewalks.
• In Florida having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal. Ouch!
• Up until 1884, a Victorian-era woman could be sent to prison for denying a husband sex.
• Taking the act of adultery to very painful heights, the Serni of Brazil take a guilty wife, whip her and then expose the wounds to fire ants.
• During the Middle Ages, if you were guilty of bestiality you’d be burned at the stake, along with the other party to your crime.
• The Asiatic Huns punished convicted male rapists and adulterers with castration. Female adulterers were cut in two.

Definitions

• Oneirogmophobia is the fear of wet dreams.
• Hybristophilia is arousal derived by having sex with people who have committed crimes.
• Emetophilia is the arousal from vomit or vomiting.
• Siderodromophilia is the arousal from riding in trains.
• Anasteemaphilia is the attraction to a person because of a difference in height.
• Crematistophilia is the arousal from being charged for sex.
• Dacryphilia is the arousal from seeing tears in the eyes of a partner.
• Oculolintus is the act of licking a partner's eyeball.
• Nasophilia is the arousal from the sight, touch, licking, or sucking of a partner’s nose.
• Sacofricosis is the practice of cutting a hole in the bottom of a front pants pocket in order to masturbate in public with less risk of detection.
• Taphephilia is the arousal from being buried alive.
• Formicophila is the enjoyment of the use of insects for sexual purposes.
• Dendrophilia is a sexual attraction to trees.
• Agalmatophilia is an attractions to statues or mannequins.
• Plushophilia is the attraction to stuff animals or the act of intercourse with a stuffed animal.
• Nasophilia is the arousal from the sight, touch, licking, or sucking of a partner's nose.
• Axillism is the act of using of the armpit for sex.