Tjejer är inte intresserade av sex! [/mod]

As head of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Finnish sociologist Osmo Kontula is preparing his presidential address to be delivered at the society’s November conference.

He’s pondering the results of sex surveys he has been conducting since 1971, which have recently *revealed some startling results: • A big drop in female orgasms. More women, particularly young women, having trouble climaxing.• More arousal and lubrication problems, especially in younger and much older women.• An increasing desire gap between men and women, with more women going off sex.• Even young women experiencing loss of desire, with one in four losing interest even less than two years into a relationship.• A big drop in sexual frequency, with more and more couples *celibate.

“There are some real mysteries here,” says Kontula, speaking from his office at the Population Research Institute in Helsinki.

“Why was there such a decline in intercourse frequency in the 2000s? There’s been a 10 to 15 per cent drop in people of all ages who say they’ve had sex in the last week. People are now having less sex than in the early 1970s and the greatest decline has been for young people, those aged 25 to 40.”

Kontula’s 2009 book Between Sexual Desire and Reality: The Evolution of Sex in Finland was based on surveys conducted regularly between 1971 and 2007. He is analysing the results of a new survey from this year and finds there has been a further small drop in sexual frequency in the past eight years and the gap *between male and female desire continues to widen.

“The desires of men and women seem at times to be on different planets,” he says, noting that women were able to fulfil their lower desires for sexual intercourse more successfully than men and many ended up *having the frequency of sex they wanted.

“It seems women are more frequently gatekeepers, deciding on when and how often the couple had sex,” he says.