You might think about how often you and your S.O. have sex, but have you ever wondered how much of your overall life is spent in the bedroom? A new survey by Reebok answered this question by analyzing how many hours and what percentages of our lives are spent on various activities, including sex.
The survey asked 9,000 people in North America, Europe, and Asia how much time they spend doing different things and calculated what proportion of their lives each activity constituted based on the average life span of 25,915 days. The amount of time we spend having sex—117 days, or 168,480 minutes—may seem like a lot if you imagine doing it all at once. But that's only .45 percent of our lives—a pretty meager amount of time compared to everything else. For example, people spend 41 percent of their lives engaged with technology (though, considering that one in 10 people check their phones during sex, the time spent on those two things could overlap).
Since sex lasts around five and a half minutes on average, that would mean we have sex over 30,000 times throughout our lives... which sounds pretty high. It's possible that Reebok's results include foreplay, which would mean longer time but fewer sessions overall.
We may spend less than half a percent of our lives doing one of our favorite activities, but the good news is that we spend 6.8 percent of our time on another important one: socializing with our loved ones. Some research has shown that couples don't actually need a lot of sex for a happy relationship, so it's possible the latter is more important. It may be fun to think about how we allocate our time, but it's the quality of that time that really matters.
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