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Thai lovers and couples have been identified as the world's most unfaithful in a Durex sex survey of 29,000 people in 36 countries.

The survey - which has been challenged by local medical and gender groups - also concluded that Thai women were the second most likely to cheat on their mates.Thai married couples and lovers topped the survey at cuckolding (54 per cent) followed by South Korea (34 per cent) and Malaysia (33 per cent).

 

The survey by the UK-based condom maker did not give details distinguishing infidelity between married couples or live-in couples.While 59 per cent of Thai women reportedly admitted to infidelity, they were still more faithful than Ghanaian women, who ranked first at 62 per cent. Women in Malaysia, Russia, and Singapore followed in third, fourth and fifth places (39 per cent, 33 per cent and 19 per cent, respectively).

 

According to the survey, Asian men were the most promiscuous in the world. Men in Singapore and Hong Kong had an average of 16 bed partners in their lifetime, while Malaysian men had about three.

 

Responding to the survey, Supensri Puengkoksung of the Women and Men Progressive Movement Foundation said the poll did not reflect the real situation in Thailand. It just reflected the opinion of people who were approached and ready to answer the survey. "You could not say that all Thai women had cheated on their partners and always had affairs with other men," she said.She added that personally, she did not support men or women cheating on their partners or having affairs, because it was immoral behaviour. "The ability to cheat on partners and have affairs with others does not mean women are equal with men," she said.

 

Meanwhile, a deputy director of the Mental Health Department, Dr Tawee Tangseri, said he doubted Thai women often cheated on their partners because they adhered to tradition and preserved their purity. Only a small proportion cheated on their partners to have sex with other men.

 

He said cheating behaviour among couples was caused by misunderstandings between each other, adding that they should communicate better. "When you have problems as a couple, you should talk to your partner. No one wins, no one loses. Just take one step backward and the problem will end," he said.

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You should review sampling theory. 800+ is a good sample size.stirthepot.gif

 

Agreed. The ratings our TV stations live and die by (ad revenue) are generated by just 800 set-top boxes. We have a cosmopolitan population of 25 million, but I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the vast majority of those boxes are in houses occupied by nuclear families with heterosexual parents of Caucasian descent. IMO, an unrepresentative sample, but advertisers dont want to know that transgender Hindus are watching at 1am on Sunday morning. :clown:

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Hi,

 

Why?

 

The very large number of brothels in this country for instance. Also just listening to the stories my wife tells me from her students, the vast majority of which fuck around on their boyfriends. Then there is the number of mia nois in this country, a large percentage of which likely fuck other guys than just their main benefactor.

 

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An excellent response from a Thai blogger:

 

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So Thai women are more adulterous than Thai men! Can anyone living in Thailand seriously believe that? It bears repeating: 59% of Thai women are unfaithful compared to 54% of Thai men who fool around behind the back of their spouse or lover. With the still prevalent old practice of mia noi (minor wife), the new casual kik culture, and the ubiquitous sex-for-sale (mostly for men) in massage parlors, clubs, brothels and all manners of establishments, who is kidding whom here?

 

I’m not saying Thai women are all prim and proper and would never cheat for that would be delusional. Surely a significant percentage of Thai women cheat on their husbands and lovers, as each society must have its fair share of female and male cheaters. But 6 in 10 of Thai women “often†cheat on their partners? Egad!

 

Consider that about 30% of Thai women of marriageable age (15-45) nationwide are single (the figure is over 40% in Bangkok).* How can that be? If 6 in 10 Thai women are adulterous, while 3 don’t have a husband to cheat on, that leaves 1 in 10 being truly faithful in the religious sense of the word. I know quite a few Thai women (girlfriends and old classmates) in their late 30’s and early 40’s who probably have never had sex, never been kissed till they were 30 or ever, who are still husbandless, boyfriendless, and very likely sexless. How do we square all these with Durex’s 59%-Thai-women-are-unfaithful statistics?

 

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Whether or not Thai women really “adhere to tradition and preserve their purity†is open to debate. If one goes by casual observation, that statement is not quite true at least for younger Thai women, given the younger and younger average age of Thai girls having their first sexual experience and Thai teenage pregnancy at the top of world ranking. Dr. Tawee and many Thais may believe that “only a small proportion†of Thai women cheat on their partners. But we have no way of knowing exactly how “small†(or “bigâ€) that proportion is, though many would be willing to bet good money it ain’t higher than the Thai men’s.

 

Assuming no respondents lied in this Durex survey — a big assumption — Ms. Supensri was probably closer to the mark in saying that the findings “just reflected the opinion of people who were approached and ready to answer the survey.â€

 

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As you can see from the chart released in 2008 above, if Thais are really the world’s most adulterous couples we are not the most frequently sexed: supposedly only 65% among us have sex weekly. Thais are not even in the top league of the world’s sex athletes. So what happened between then and now? Is it possible that even though Thai women and men don’t have the most frequent sex on the planet (or more precisely among the 26 countries listed), Thais may have the most frequent sex behind their partners’ back? Could it be that those 65% Thais who have a history of having sex at least weekly disproportionately have it mostly with people other than their spouse and lover? Or even Thais who don’t have sex that often (less than weekly) have it while cheating? Possible, but how probable? The scenario gets rather complicated.

 

To complicate the picture even further, less than a decade ago (2003) Thailand was named among the top countries where people were “most satisfied with their sex life†(along with China and Vietnam). But then just 5 years later, the Chinese were reported by Durex to have a serious trouble with sex: 76% of the previously sex-happy Chinese could not reach orgasm! Either that was an unfortunate and swift turn of event, or something was not quite right about the new numbers or the old ranking, or both.

 

The Bangkok Post reporting doesn’t help. It said that the statistics reported came from the survey covering 29,000 women in 36 countries (The Nation gave no information whatsoever on that). This contradicts with other media reports on the same set of statistics in other countries, all of which said that the survey covered 29,000 people (not just women) in 36 countries. We don’t know what are the 10 additional countries included since 2008. Do we smell recycling of data? :hmmm:

 

[And she goes on to tear their survey methods apart ...]

 

 

 

 

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