New York, April 6…In the battle of the sexes chalk up a victory for the men. A worldwide survey of sex therapists has concluded that the “optimal” time for a satisfactory sexual experience is three to thirteen minutes.
The survey to be published in the May issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, challenges what one researcher derided as “the old wives’ tale” that male endurance is necessary to satisfy women.
“We hope to ease the minds of those who believe that more of something good is better, and if you really want to satisfy your partner you should last forever,” researcher Eric Corty said.
Dr. Irwin Goldstein, editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, published the results of a four-week study of 1500 couples in which the men were plied with pharmaceutical and nutritional aphrodisiacs, and the women were given stopwatches. The study concluded that the median time for satisfactory intercourse from foreplay to climax was 7.3 minutes. After allowance was made for broken champagne glasses and dropped stopwatches the time was lowered to 6.9 minutes.
Reaction on both sides of the sexual divide was quick and predictable. At a seminar sponsored by the Institute For The Study of Sex in the Cyber Age, the study was hailed as “groundbreaking” by Efraim Durg, founder of Save Our Sanity.
“This confirms our suspicion that women impose impossible performance standards on men as a way of strengthening their power over us,” he said. “Men have been vindicated and no longer need to hang their heads in guilt.”
Leah Schildkraut, gender advocate for the Anarcho-Feminist Coalition, disagreed, calling the survey “fraught with hidden male agendas.” She noted that most of the therapists questioned were either males “or co opted menopausal females.” She condemned the study as “another example of the patriarchal conspiracy” which seeks to blame women for all the problems in heterosexual relationships.
“This study is a giant step backward back to a time when women had to suffer in silence,” she said.
After that the discussion quickly degenerated into an insult fest.
“You’d be lucky to get one minute of sex,” Durg shouted at Schildkraut.
“You’d be lucky to keep it up for a minute,” she replied. “Or should I say get it up.”
“Oh yeah?” Durg said, as his supporters cheered him on. “Oh yeah, bitch?”
Volunteer ushers from the Lesbian Cage Fighting Association quickly escorted him from the room.
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