Sex Facts From France: EVERYTHING is a Sex Toy!

by Coleen Singer.
We all just LOVE the French attitude about sex, and this is a fun new development in how they intend to use pleasure products to give the economy a boost.
Hey, you can only get so far with cheese exports!

Read on…

According to Time Magazine: “What could be more French than sex? More sex, as it turns out — especially if you happen to be a woman. Nearly 40 years after France’s May 1968 revolution spawned the slogan “pleasure without obstruction,” a new study finds that the French of both genders are engaging in more varied and frequent sex than ever before — and both earlier and later into life. Yet perhaps the most significant finding in the report is that French women have been playing serious sexual catch-up with their male counterparts since the last national sex survey in 1992.
Below, a very cute clip from France about how they intend to “stimulate the economy” with dildos and sex toys…..

But, it’s not all funny when it comes to sex in France.  A Salon article from 2003 gives us some insight into the differences between France and other culture’s views and sexual practices.  In this article, the author states,  “Frenchwomen have always had a singular allure about them. It’s not so much their total lack of body fat or those pert little breasts that can fit into the rim of a champagne glass. It’s their infuriating poise and inscrutable sensuality that has captivated us for centuries. “A comparison of Amazons to Angels,” is how Thomas Jefferson characterized the difference between the liberated Frenchwomen (he was scandalized by them) and the virtuous American maidens of his time. A century later, those “Amazons” would teach American GIs a few tricks about “Frenching and the French way.” Since then, Americans have rushed to France in search of intellectual freedom, good food and good sex (not necessarily in that order).

But the land of oo-la-la and voulez-vous coucher avec moi is not exactly what you think it is. In 2001, the Journal of Sex Research published the results of a Franco-American research project titled “A Comparative Study of the Couple in the Social Organization of Sexuality in France and the United States.” The study both reaffirms and busts open many of our long-standing myths about the French with compelling sociocultural data that, in light of the current chilling of Franco-American relations, merits a double take.

The study reveals that the French have fewer partners overall than Americans, maintain more long-term committed relationships, are more likely to be monogamous (surprise!), and enjoy more frequent sex. (Sixty-nine percent of single Frenchmen and 85 percent of single Frenchwomen report fidelity to one single sexual partner, compared to 48 percent of American men and 66 percent of American women.) But one of the most striking differences was between older French- and American women. The study reports that after the age of 50, American women are 10 percent less likely than Frenchwomen to be living in a couple.

These differences are even more dramatic with age. “While 79 percent of the 50 to 54 year olds (in France) are living in a couple, only 60 percent of the 55 to 59 year olds (in the U.S.) are in the same situation.” (The study was based on 3,432 American adults ages 18 to 59 surveyed in the National Health and Social Life Survey, and 4,580 French adults between the ages of 18 and 59 from the Analysis of Sexual Behavior in France survey.)”  – Salon Magazine, 2003