On what gets the male and female libido ticking and what happens when that happens...

What arouses men most? No prizes for guessing this one - the tits and butt brigade reign supreme. A full 85% of married men and 84% of single men find breasts the most potent arousal point followed by buttocks at 56 and 59% respectively. And this is uniform across all age groups from 18 all the way to the above 45s. Overall looks score 57% and oddly, very very oddly, 44% of the men find the waist a great turn on! Only 38% of married men find facial beauty an important arousal point as compared to the 47% figure for singles. Do men stop looking at their spouse after marriage or do others areas become more exciting after marriage? And hair, to which poets and writers in India have sung such paeans, scores a lowly 9th rank with 26% of the married men and 36% of the singles admitting its their most sexual arousal touch point.

But when it comes to women, the findings are more interesting and revealing. While 60% of all women consider overall looks as the most significant arousal point, the next highest score is that of eyes.48% of married women and 54% of single women find a man's eyes the biggest turn on with the younger age group (18-24) much more alive to the charm of a man's eyes than the elder brigade. So all ye men, keep those eyes wide open. Muscular physique, predictably, comes in at the next slot but followed surprisingly by buttocks with 42% of single women finding a man's buttocks sexually exciting. The over-45 group doesn't give a damn about a man's waist, happy enough if the rest of him is reasonable.

Foreplay

Kissing and use of hands are the most popular activities for sexual foreplay with well over 80% of the respondents indicating these as their favoured choice. Undressing each other and massaging follow with over 60% of the respondents using these two to get things under way. Disappointingly however, perusing erotic art together, doesn't seem to be a very popular part of foreplay with barely 20% of the people watching pornographic films or looking at explicit pictures to turn the heat on. Significantly in the 18-24 age group over 30% of the respondents have explicit conversations before sex with Kolkata and Pune leading the pack in this area. Not surprisingly singles tend to talk more about sex before they do it than married people. Watching pornographic movies is much more common in Delhi and Mumbai than in Chennai and Bangalore. Significantly there is hardly any difference in the responses of males and females on this query.

Afterplay

Post coitus 35% of the couples tend to hold each other while 22% kiss each other all over. However, in the over 36 age group, the second most popular after-sex activity is sleeping with over 25% of the respondents drifting off to sleep after sex. Lucknow, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad is where in general more people go off to sleep after sex. In general of course, whopping 22% of married respondents indicate sleep as a favourite post sex activity as compared to the 6% figure for singles. In Lucknow fondling after sex isn't a very popular activity with just about 7% of the respondents indicating this as a popular activity. A much higher percent of women rate holding their partner after sex as a favoured position though the figure drops for kissing post sex where only 13% women show their preference as compared to 18% of men. Kissing various parts of the body after sex is also far more popular among single respondents than their married counterparts.

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