One in five - around 40 million people - say they've looked at porn Web sites.As many, men and women about equally, have had 'rebound' sex to get over a failedrelationship. Two-thirds of sexually active Americans sometimes 'wear something sexy' to enhancetheir sex lives, and 30 percent say they and their partner have watched sexually explicitvideos. About half of women say they've faked an orgasm. Twenty-nine percent have had sex on a first date, and about as many have had an 'unexpected sexual encounter with someone new.' Fifteen percent of men - and three in 10 single men age 30 and older - have paid for sex. Forty-two percent call themselves sexually adventurous. Half talk with their partners about their sexual fantasies. Click here for more ABC News polls in our Poll Vault.Īmong the results: Fifty-seven percent of Americans have had sex outdoors or in a public place. Click here for PDF version with full questionnaire and results. A groundbreaking ABC News 'Primetime Live' survey finds a range of eye-popping sexual activities, fantasies and attitudes in this country, confirming some conventional wisdom, exploding some myths - and venturing where few scientific surveys have gone before.
Sampling, data collection and tabulation for this poll were done by TNS.īut there's more to sex in America in 2004 than that 1950s picture suggests.
