Married Women Prefer Sleep, Movies, Books to Sex

The new iVillage survey of 2000 married women with a 60/40 split of those with and without children says that two-thirds of married women admit they would rather do something else then have sex with their spouses.

We’re trying to locate a 2005 survey that says women would even rather work late in the office than have sex.

As revealed in other surveys, the top priority was an extra hour of sleep but watching a movie or reading a book also topped having sex with their spouses for the women. Only 16 percent of women were unhappy with the state of their sex lives.

The vast majority of the women sampled rated their sex life as predicatable, based on location (70%), position (67%), time of day (56%), duration (52%) and foreplay (46%), while one in four said they did not. via PR Newswire.

Half of the women said that they married “the best sex of their lives”. Two-thirds of the married women said they had fantasies about having sex with someone else, and 10% admitted doing it.

Children had an impact on how women felt about their spouses; women who had children were significantly more likely to try something new in bed with their spouse, say they married the best sex of their lives, and claim they had better sex after marriage than those who did not have children. via PR Newswire.

We have one question here in Sensual and Superyoung. Just what books would women rather be reading than having sex? A romance novel, perhaps?

The study also found that 32% are extremely or very happy with their sex life and about half (45%) responded they were happy or somewhat happy.  

A mere 16% found that they were not at all happy with their sex lives.

I-Village doesn’t add up this math — presumably it’s unimportant to them — but we assume that one in two women is somewhat unhappy or not happy at all with her sex life.