Promiscuity and sexual activity

The farthest and most copious ejaculation

The distances the seminal fluid achieves before being arrested in flight must surely vary.

Van de Velde notes that the "rhythmic spasms of ejaculation fling forth the semen from the external orifice with an impetus which may be perceived if the emission takes place in vacuo." He adds, with the air of the true scientist, that the "seminal stream usually covers a distance of from 15 to 20 cm, but has been known to exceed 1m".

In his "Ideal Marriage" that human semen, in one ejaculation, can be as much as 10 ml. Though G. I. M. Swyer sets his sights higher - "volumes up to 15 ml. have been recorded".

The peaks of male and female promiscuity

Kinsey found very few men or women who had had more than one hundred sexual partners. Historically, however, a number of performers have notched up a much higher figure than this. Some tales are perhaps too legendary to believe. For example, Conchobar, the King of Ulster in the twelfth century, was said (in the ancient "Book of Leinster") to have slept with all the marriageable girls in the Kingdom. Perhaps more reliably Don Juan with "his personal tally of 2,065 conquests" - is the record holder. In the Kinsey survey only 1 per cent of women had pre-marital coitus with as many as twenty-odd different partners. Kinsey accepts "the male's greater inclination to be promiscuous" yet this belief is going beyond the data. A number of historical performers- Cleopatra, Messalina, etc. - are quite as impressive as the men. The record is surely held by Madame de Saint-Ange who stated "In the twelve years I have been married I have been had by perhaps ten or twelve thousand individuals." (J. Atkins' "Sex in Literature")

The most frequent sexual activity

Kinsey found that some married couples were having sexual intercourse as many as twenty-nine times a week, i.e. couples in the 21-25 year age group. By the age of fifty, "maximum frequency" had dropped to around 14 times a week. And it has also been noted that in some exceptional cases, from the youngest lovers to those around forty years of age - "there were some individuals who were having coitus in their marriages on an average of four times a day, every day in the week.  In their extensive cross-cultural study, Ford and Beach noted that Thonga males copulate with 3 or 4 wives in a single night; and Chegga men are supposed to have intercourse as many as ten times a night.

Source:  G.L. Simons