It consists of your thoughts and feelings about sex, what arouses you and what doesn’t, and your actual sex activity. Although each person’s sex life is uniquely shaped by family, social, religious, and other influences, much of what we think, feel, and do sexually is not unique – other men and women share the same pattern. Each sexual style is the sum of those common attitudes and behaviors.
We discovered, for example, one sexual style we call The Pansexual. The men and women in this group are generally happy and take sex in many forms. One American in five is pansexual.
At the other end of the sexual spectrum, there’s The Nonsexual. This is the style of one person in seven. They are unhappy in most aspects of their lives, and they dislike their bodies. No sort of sexual stimulation arouses them; they have a low sex drive.
Parade’s survey revealed other surprising findings:
• Men and women are more alike sexually than they are different. Up to now, most sex researchers treated men and women almost as two distinct species.
• Age does not dictate sexual style. In fact, once you adopt a certain sexual behavior, you may respond to sex that way for the rest of your life.
• Neither religious devotion, nor marital status, nor political leaning powerfully influences how you take your sex, although each factor may exert some influence.
• Homosexuals may not be as aroused by traditional foreplay (such as kissing, hugging, and touching) as heterosexuals are. Homosexuals are more likely to be aroused by extremely erotic behavior. Eleven percent of the men and women in our sample had had some homosexual experience.
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