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South Africans are well ahead of the global average in experimenting with phone, SMS and email sex, indulging in one night stands and sleeping with their best friends' partners, according to the 2003 Durex Global Sex Survey.

The online survey, which was released on Tuesday, polled nearly 4 000 South Africans on their sexual habits.

The survey found 67 percent of South Africans were happy with their sex lives, compared with the global average of 73 percent.

The most blissfully happy were lovers in the Far East, with Thailand (92 percent), Vietnam (90 percent) and China (83 percent) topping the chart.

South Africans should be worried about letting their best friends near their partners
Finland (59 percent) and the Russian Federation (59 percent) were the least happy.
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Worldwide sexually active adults were having sex on average 127 times a year. South Africans were not getting lucky as often, having sex an average 123 times a year.

But pity the Singaporeans and Malaysians, who score least often, 96 and 100 times per year respectively.

Although Russians were the least happy about their sex lives, they were in the top three for frequency of sex, averaging 150 days a year.

Hungary, with an average 152 and Bulgaria with 151 a year, topped the sexual encounters list.

Faked orgasms are most likely to happen down under
South Africans may not be having as much sex as East Europeans, but they scored high on one-night stands. Sixty one percent of South African respondents had had a one night stand. Only Denmark (65 percent), Finland (68 percent) and Norway (70 percent) were more prepared to hop into bed for a once-off experience.

South Africans were also quite willing to combine sex and technology - 41 percent admitted to having had phone, SMS or email sex.

The United States (54 percent), United Kingdom (52 percent) and Canada (50 percent) were at the forefront of virtual sex.


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