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I think that the main reason why celibacy is making a comeback is...
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Did you know?
- 20% of British women say they aren't interested in sex (UK survey, 1999)
- 30% of women aged 18-59 have a low sex drive, according to a survey published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA survey, February 10, 1999)
- 70% of men rate friendship with their partner more highly than getting frisky, and this is according to a survey by FHM Bionic Magazine! For many couples, it's shared interests, close companionship and a deep platonic love that ultimately binds them together
- Experts in Japan have discovered that a third of Japanese couples go for a year without sex (Top Sante, July 2005)
- A study at Hamburg-Eppendorf University in Germany found that after just four years in a secure relationship, less than 50% of 30 year old women want regular sex.
- Four out of ten Britons would be prepared to give up sex if it meant that they could live to be 100, according to a 2006 poll by BUPA. Almost half of the women in the survey said that they would take up celibacy to reach the milestone.
- Over 99 percent of cervical cancer cases are associated with the human papillomavirus (HPV).