What percentages of men and women maturbate through specific ages over
time (esp. something like: men age 10-15= 18%, 16-18= 21%, 19-21= 22%,
22-25= 23%, 26-30= 24%, 31-35= 21%, 36-41= 17%,42-47= 14%, 48-53= 11%, 54-59=
8%, 60-65=6%, 66-71= 3%, 72-77= 1%, 78-on= 1%; woman ages: 10-15= 13%,
16-18= 11%, 19-21= 15%, 22-25= 19%, 26-30= 23%, 31-35= 20%, 36-41= 16%,42-47=
13%, 48-53= 9%, 54-59= 7%, 60-65= 4%, 66-71= 2%, 72-77= 1%, 78-on= 1%
---something where it would seperate men from women and give
percentages at different ages during one's life? The natural
assumptions are young men do it more often and at a greater
percentage, as does one assume that over time, both sexes do it less
and less. There is a reasonable expectation that females start a
little later than males but females may catch up or surpass males
around their thirties then begin to drop off again after about 55
again? I would like to see either a graph of this or a grouping
something like I suggested. Thanks!

Hi 4sure,

Statistics similar to those which you are seeking have been collected
and published in a book "Sex in America: A Definitive Survey" by
Robert T Michael, J Gagnon and others. Here's the listing at
amazon.com:

"Books: Sex in America"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446671835

If you have registered with amazon.com and logged in, and have a valid
credit card on file, you can search and browse within the text of this
book (the credit card is not charged). If you search for the phrase
"masturbation by age and gender", then click on the hyperlink that
reads "on Page 164", you will be taken to a chart showing the
frequency of masturbation by age and gender for ages 18 to 59, broken
down into "once a week or more", "sometimes" or "not at all". The
authors did not interview people under 18, but they note that
"previous studies by others have found that most adolescent boys
masturbate".

Contrary to your expectations, there is a relatively low rate from age
18-24: just 60% of men and fewer than 40% of women said that they had
masturbated in the past year. The authors propose that this is because
at that age they regard masturbation as something "that kids do ...
that they have now outgrown".

However, by their late twenties both men and women are masturbating
more, and in general the frequency of masturbation is correlated with
the frequency of sex for each age group. The authors draw the
interesting conclusion that "masturbation is not a substitute for
those who are sexually deprived, but rather is an activity that
stimulates and is stimulated by other sexual behavior".

This book does support your assumption that females start masturbating
later, although they never overtake males. Females also peak later
(age 34-39 for females vs. age 24-29 for males).

The book also notes that those most likely to engage in oral sex (such
as white educated liberals) are also those most likely to masturbate.
Surprisingly, married people were significantly more likely to
masturbate than those living alone.

I recommend that you browse online pages 163, 164 and 165, especially
the graph on page 164 which provides data of the type that you are
seeking. If you want to purchase the book, it is available from
amazon.com for $18, with used copies currently listed from $7.

Another source of statistics is provided by the Kama Sutra Cross-Tab
Sex Survey 2002:
http://www.ksontheweb.com/64/KSCT2003website.pps

This file is in Microsoft Powerpoint 97 format, and is best viewed
with Powerpoint (or OpenOffice.org's free "Impress" software) as
Google's HTML view does not show the charts.

Unlike the statistics for "Sex in America", the Kama Sutra Cross-Tab
Sex Survey is from India and show a different pattern: married people
were less likely to masturbate than those living alone.

The Indian statistics are for males only, and masturbation rates were
64% for age 18-24, 61% for age 25-30, 53% for age 31-35 and 48% above
age 35. There are many more statistics in the Kama Sutra Cross-Tab Sex
Survey.

I hope that from these two studies you can gain the information that
you are seeking.


Google search strategy:

"masturbation by gender OR age"
://www.google.com/search?q=%22masturbation+by+gender+OR+age%22

"masturbation by age" statistics
://www.google.com/search?q=%22masturbation+by+age%22+statistics


Regards,
eiffel-ga