Hard Facts

Who said you can’t learn anything from studying ceilings?

Impress family, friends and coworkers with a few tidbits from the 'Slide Hard Facts' book.

Guys

  • Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds.
  • 85% of men who die of heart attacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.
  • A man’s beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
  • A man will ejaculate approximately 18 quarts of semen, containing half a trillion sperm, in his lifetime
  • Men are six times more likely than women to peruse sexually explicit material on the Internet
  • The smallest erect penis on record was just 1cm long
  • Three out of a thousand men (0.3%) are well endowed enough to fellate (blow) themselves to orgasm

Girls

  • 25% of women think money makes a man sexier.
  • Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don’t.
  • According to the Museum of Sex, the vibrator was originally used as a medicinal treatment for female "hysteria" during the 19th century. The vibrator-induced orgasms helped doctors dissipate hysteria's anxiety-related symptoms.
  • During the female orgasm, endorphines are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex.
  • 30% of women over the age of 80 still have sexual intercourse either with their spouse or boyfriends.
  • Women are most likely to want to have sex when they are ovulating.

Couples

  • Each day, there are over 100 million sex acts taking place all over the world.
  • Sex burns 360 calories per hour!
  • Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
  • The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
  • The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were: Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
  • The average person spends 2 weeks of its life kissing.

Body & Mind

  • Distance sperm travels to fertilize an egg: 3-4 inches
  • It takes a sperm one hour to swim 7 inches.
  • “Formicophilia” is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals.
  • “Ithyphallophobia” is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
  • Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. It is 10 times more effective than valium!
  • Semen contains zinc and calcium, both of which are proven to prevent tooth decay.
  • The average size of an erect penis is 5 inches, and the average flaccid penis measures about 3 inches.
  • Sex burns about 70-120 calories for a 130 pound woman, and 77 to 155 calories for a 170 pound man every hour.
  • Kissing can aid in reducing tooth decay. This is because the extra saliva helps in keeping the mouth clean.

Random

  • For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn pages (what category would Slide fit into).
  • In India it is cheaper to have sex with a prostitute than buy a condom!
  • The average shelf-life of a latex condom is about two years.  If you haven’t used it by then, it’s time for a few new pickup lines.
  • Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because Donald doesn’t wear pants.
  • In earlier times, masturbation was believed to lead to blindness, madness, sudden death and other unpleasant diseases. Present research, however, shows no connection.