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Sexual Experience Essay

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The research looking at the differences between Asians and Caucasians related to sexual experience is consistent and immense. For one, A number of studies have noted that asians tend to be less sexually experienced than caucasians (Cochran, Mays, & Leung, 1991; McLaughli, Chen, Greenberger, & Biermeir, 1997; Sasaki & kameoka 2009; Schuster, Bell, Nakajima & Kanouse 1998; Randolph, et. al. 2009, Meston & Ahrold 2008, Laumann et al. 2005, Meston, Trapnell, & Gorzalka 1998, Huang & Uba 1992). This trend has been identified in multiple studies and a range of age samples, including a study on 4593 high school students (Sasaki & Kameoka 2009). Saskaki and Kameoka reported that the odds of sexual intercourse were significantly lower for Japanese students. …show more content…

For example, In their sample of 1,348 undergraduates Meston and Ahrold found that across genders, Asians were significantly less likely to report having had experience in petting, oral sex, or intercourse, compared to Euro-Americans. They also found Asians reported the fewest sexual partners in the past year and were significantly less likely to report having one-time sexual encounters. Interestingly, it was specifically Asian men who reported lower rates of sexual experience and fewer sexual partners than Asian women, Hispanics or Euro Americans. What is surprising is that other studies have shown that Asian men in short term relationships tend to score higher on number of number of sexual partners and number of one night stands compared to Caucasians, but this effect is reversed for single asian men (Maestripieri, Klimczuk & Traficonte 2014). Maestripieri and colleagues (2014) also included testosterone as a measure and found that East Asian men had lowest level compared to Hispanic, African and Caucasian men. Furthermore, all the group’s except East Asians tend to have higher testosterone levels when single compared to men in relationships. Interestingly, Asian Men in relationships scored significantly higher than the other groups in testosterone

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