Singapore men are undersexed and overeager

GlobalPost

Men in the affluent city-state Singapore are a bit sex starved, according to a study by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.

They're getting it, on average, about five times a month. They want it about nine times per month. Singapore's women, the study showed, are having sex about as often and want to increase the frequency to about 7 monthly romps.

What's so sad about these figures is that the Singaporean government is desperate to get more couples in bed.

The well-to-do, hardworking island of 5 million is facing the same first-world dilemma Europe seeks to reverse: population decline.

Essentially, poor people make more babies than rich people and Singapore has long escaped the clutches of poverty.

To stoke more copulation, the Singaporean government manages its own Match.com-style Web site -- "Love Byte" -- to pair up couples.

That's right. State-sponsored hooking up, courtesy of the government's "Social Development Network." 

Their goal: "creating interaction opportunities for singles." (I just got a tingle. Did you?)

Full disclosure: I have on multiple occasions politely requested interviews with the folks at "LoveByte." They flat out refuse to talk -- and I doubt this post will help. So to all my Singaporean readers who've used LoveByte, please feel free to get in touch via e-mail (pwinn5-at-gmail) because I'd love to hear your experiences with this government-run dating service.

Back to Singaporean sex woes.

This Pfizer study actually comes on the heels of another bummer report that suggests one in three Singaporean men struggle with premature ejaculation, according to Asia One.

The report was commissioned by -- guess who? -- the makers of a new pill to prevent premature ejaculation. So I would normally consider those findings to be dubious.

But maybe they're right. The pill, released in May, sold out within a month.

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