How many people are having sex right now?

Kids are so cruel! (I mean, for adults' delusions).

Actually the question arised as I remember reading a book years ago in which the main character was obsessed by the possibility of such flow, flooding the valley and the house where he lived.

Sounds like something Woody Allen might obsess on.

Now have this whole scenario running through my mind. GAG!

BTW, I meant the container in fertility clinics where they hold fertilized eggs until needed. I don't think I've ever been at a loss for "vagina."

Handing Deb the Ginger Chocolate Ice Cream carton and a spoon...

I wonder how many people are FORNICATING right now.

Because they will all burn in hell.

No, we are not calculating again the entropy of hell!
(And the mass of souls!)

I just thought I would place this message here, as knowing you lot, about two thousand will look in on the thread title, and it will therefore get maximum exposure.

I am disappearing for a little holiday for about a week, as my wife has a half term holiday, and we are going to spend some quality time together.

No idea where we are going yet, probably a last minute holiday somewhere......maybe even America....who knows?

I am at present, searching for my diary.

I'll be around for a while on Friday, but not for long. See you soon, folks.














PS.....if you see a bumbling idiot, accompanied by a gorgeous but embarrassed looking wife on the streets of New York over the next week, be nice to him, eh?

happy holiday your lordship

Keep an eye out for ehBeth & Noddy if you are wandering about The City. I'm sorry to say I will miss the big adventure.

I saw the title of this thread and decided to pop in, thinking Lord Ellpus would be hanging around. Sure enough, there he was!

He seems to like to hang around these cheap dive threads.

Well, I'm off...... back to the more intellectual threads.

Gus, you little devil, I just left that "intellectual" thread you started entitled Penthouse Letters. Very funny. We are all waiting for an encore.

Have a great holiday Lordie.

Warm wishes for a fine holiday to Lordie and Lordessa.
If you happen to plan for Napa Sonoma or some such, let me know. I won't drive down and bother you, unless begged, but might mention some places.

Well, never mind, you'll be fine. Keep your tootsies away from the very edge at the Grand Canyon... and watch out for weird farmers with pitchforks.

Take some stereoptiscopes if you have a chance...

and

do

keep up the

diary.

It is my honor that you have chosen my thread in which to make this announcement, my virtual friend, and I appreciate it. Although, I really hope you don't come to NYC, as not being able to meet with you for a drink would be yet another reason for my incredible despair at the fact that I am moving out of the city this weekend.

However, if you do decide to come to New York, please, if you could, take just a moment to think about and reflect on how beloved this place is by those who have had the good fortune to have lived here. It is truly a special place.

Enjoy.

That's not bad, I suppose.....84 "views" since my last post on this thread.

Kicky, the honour is all mine, as such an intellectual and thought provoking thread deserves to be re-visited from time to time.

Thinking about it, "How many of you are having sex" was the obvious choice, as it would naturally draw in the people that I have come to love so dearly, during my short life on A2K.

As a common denominator, my A-typical like minded soul mate on A2K, I usually go for the likes of Shewolf or Heeven. This thread title would definitely get their attention.

I can visualise them going through the process of logging on.

Username and password duly entered, they casually move the cursor to "At a glance" and wait the usual five minutes for that screen to appear.
Shewolf passes the time by demolishing another square of chocolate, Heeven nibbles away at some bird seed, both staring vacantly at the screen.

The list comes up, and their eyes move down from the top......."George says that Intelligent Design is how he got here"...hmmmm..."Does God exist, and if so, does he ever go to Minnesota"....hmmmm....."How do I re-boot my Packard after removing a 3GB disk shuffle".....hmmm.......
"How many are having sex, right now" ARRROOOOGA... ARRROOOOGA....DING DING DING DING.......
their hands fly out to the mouse, grasp it tightly and drag the cursor across the screen to the relevant click spot. The index fingers almost make an impression in the plastic, as the left hand click is compressed with the force of 2 tons per square inch......they wait.....eyes fixed on the little square at the bottom of the screen as the green counters move from one, to two...."COME ON, GOD DAMN YOU...WHOEVER IT IS WILL HAVE FINISHED BY THE TIME I GET THERE!".......three little green counters, four.....then, suddenly the box fills and the screen changes to.....blank....."WHAT THE ?....." the anticipation is too much for heeven, and she feels the urge to bury her head in the sandbox that she keeps by her computer.....Shewolf has already opened another bar of chocolate, and has dribbled brown drool from her mouth, onto her spandex hot pants.......then it is done.....and they realise that they have been duped.

They switch off the box in rage, and go in search of the nearest male....

I did the math ...
This is a question I was discussing with some friends, so I looked and looked all over the net but couldn't find an answer. So I decided to come up with one myself. I used as a basis for my calculations that, if the average person spends 1/3 of his/her life sleeping, then at any given time 1/3 of the world's population is sleeping at any given moment. The numbers I used are as follows:

The average human lifespan - 30,000 days
The average number of sexual encounters during that lifespan - 4199
The average duration of sexual activity (yes, this DOES include foreplay) - 15 minutes
The world's population - 6.6 billion plus, but I just used the 6.6 (you can be as picky as you want to )

My calculations determined that the average person spends 0.1457986% of his/her life engaged in sexual relations, so 0.1457986% of the world is having sex at any given time. That would be 9,622,708 people.

hmm, datette, a few problems with your deduction. (btw, welcome to a2k!)

To calculate amount of time spent in one's life on sex:
30,000 days- that would mean average lifespan is 82 years. that is not correct.



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24637.5 is thus closer to reality. But you don't really need it anyway.

plus, what does the amount of sleep have to do with sex? some people do it three times a day, some three times a year, some never. but they all sleep. what would be more useful is the average time during which people are sexually active in their lives - people don't have sex from cradle to grave. So if we have 67.5 years of average lifespan, take away, say 30 (?) - it would be hard to track all countries around the world and it would vary a lot, i expect... we have 37.5 years on average in human's life of sexual activity. now, how many times do people have sex in those 37.5 years? let's establish a yearly figure and then multiply it by 37.5 and then by 15 minutes. Divided by 60 (minutes in an hour) you'll get number of hours per average life.

From a Finnish survey:
Of the respondents who had had sexual intercourse (in 1992 97% and in 1971 92% of all respondents), some 40% had had sexual intercourse at least twice a week during the last month. No intercourse at all during the last month was reported by 13%. Results on the time of the last sexual intercourse were very similar. Approximately 40% (48% of men in 1992) said that the last sexual intercourse had occurred two days ago or later, while 17% stated that at least three weeks had elapsed since their last sexual intercourse. No intercourse at all during the last month was reported by 13%. Sooo... 40% do it, say 10 or 15 times, 17% do it 1 time, 13% not at all. The remaining 20% falls somewhere in between 1 and 15, so let's say 7 times a month...

Errr....ok..... anybody wants to take over? my colleague is waiting for me to go to lunch...

btw, even when we get the time in human's life spent on sex, that won't translate in the amount of people having sex right now around the world... that would require a different mechanism... k, will be back...

I am having sex right now. I am bent over and being f**ked by my data center, who have just lumped me a massive charge for 2006 which I had no clue abt.

Does this count as sex ?

I just finished...excuse me while I toss this tissue....

Well that was more info than I wanted...
tossing tissues, I always saw you as more refined...

you'd prefer an old sock I suppose?