I suspect a few of those rankings change if you add the word "consensual" to the survey question.
I'm going to guess Cuba, and now go check my answer.
I've been happily married for years, but still, this hurts just a tiny bit.
Oh yeah, this looks like a reliable source.
Is this an invitation to remember, or to buy new clothes and renew attention to posture and badinage? For memory, partners who see you as better than you are, or partners who see you as worse?
10: Guess who's not getting invited to the orgy?
Ha I actually wasn't thinking orgy I was thinking maintaining three to 14.5 relationships at the same time.
The polycule that plays together, stays together.
12: who said anything about maintaining them?
Years ago I read an article in the architecture of some newspaper or magazine, maybe the NYT, about someone in Arizona or Utah who built their house to try to accommodate polygamy (some dissident Mormonism). So there was essentially a wing for each sub-family family, with the guy rotating around from household to household.
I hate the word "nookie" so much. It immediately calls to mind Fred Durst screaming "I DID IT FOR THE NOOKIE" in what must surely be one of, if not the very, worst and unpleasantest pop songs of the past quarter century.
17: probably! I'm a little surprised it was that long ago but I did read the NYT online a lot in its early years of being on the web.
19: One of the greatest tweets I ever saw (Kathleen Hanna, I think?) likened watching the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing to having Fred Durst scream that song in her face for two days straight.
I hate the word "nookie" so much.
Still better than "furbaby".
re: 24
In the course of a conversation at a New Year party about "dry" versus "damp" January--some friends were stopping drinking entirely, some were going attending some social events and intending to drink, but otherwise not drinking--someone revealed that one of the parent-couples at my son's school has a neon light outside their bedroom door which lights up with the word "moist".
I was sceptical, but three different Mums who were present at the party confirmed that it existed, and that they'd personally seen it.
The wife of the couple in question is both incredibly prudish--she has phoned other parents to complain about having overheard bad language from their children, etc.--and given to suddenly oversharing about her sex life.
I don't even have an outlet outside the bedroom door.
I guess we don't have enough outlets to meet current building codes.
The lights were wonderful. There ought to be a monument to the man who invented neon lights.
I associate the n-word (not that n-word, the other one, the one in this thread) with kind of awful prudish-but-hurhur-naughty tabloid content. Somehow I'd avoided the concept of Fred Durst yelling about it. Good god that's a horrible band.
Still better than "furbaby".
I stand by my belief that "mouthfeel" is even worse.
Sorry for nookie-knocking everyone!
Don't worry, today's post is even more obnoxious a topic.
8. What they need is modal. They're probably using mean because easier. What they ought to do is find a more grown up topic to spend their grant money on.
What they need is modal. They're probably using mean because easier
Modal is easier. You learn to count in kindergarten, but division doesn't start until third or fourth grade.
I now understand why Czechoslovakia broke up.
36: that is a surprising difference! (And I would definitely have expected it to be the other way round.)
If you look for pairs of what I suppose you could call "culturally similar countries" they generally aren't very far apart in the rankings. Australia and New Zealand (though there, as with Turkey, I think it's mostly due to a cultural propensity towards bragging). UK and Ireland. Belgium and France. US and Canada. Serbia and Montenegro.
But Czech Republic/Slovakia are almost a factor of two apart - as indeed are Germany/Austria.
The other one that really surprises me is Hong Kong/Singapore.
A bit of spreadsheet-bashing reveals that there's no correlation with total population, and no significant correlation with GDP per capita. Rather surprisingly, including a "former colonial power" variable does make a difference - if your native land was once part of the Habsburg Empire, you're getting laid about 40% less than if your ancestors were under the Ottoman yoke. (Britain is worse yet, because India pushes the average down.)