Survey Unveils What Happens in Bedroom
December 20th, 2008 by The BabeAssociated Press
STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Austrians love their bedrooms, but seldom make love in them. Malaysians often have sex in their bedrooms, but don’t get much sleep there.
Those are some of the conclusions of an international Gallup poll presented by Swedish furniture giant Ikea. The company wanted to know how frequently people in Europe, Asia and North America use their bedrooms for different activities, including sleeping, relaxing and “romance.”
- In Sweden and Iceland, 72 percent of respondents said they use their bedrooms for romantic endeavors, while in China the same figure was 20 percent.
- Malaysians were the most sexually active — 43 percent said they have sex daily in their bedrooms. Malaysia was also the place were people sleep the least: Six hours and 36 minutes per night, about half an hour less than the survey’s average.
- Austrians ranked low in sexual activity, but were the most satisfied with their bedrooms, ahead of Belgians and Swiss. Russians were the least satisfied.
- Spaniards and Americans were most likely to keep their bedrooms private.
- Almost half of Chinese allowed their friends access to their bedrooms.
- Other facts in the survey: Three-quarters make their bed daily; people who frequently change their mattresses have more sex; and the most common fixture of a bedroom is the alarm clock.
The survey included 14,000 IKEA customers in 27 countries. The margin of error was 4.5 percentage points.
