Once we knew these averages, we wanted to pinpoint the factors that affect the likelihood of somebody partaking in external ejaculation. We’ll come back to the face a little later. Around 4 in 10 said they had never given or received a facial, while just over 1 in 4 said they do it sometimes, if not often. The act of ejaculating on a woman’s face, commonly known as a facial, divides people. Sixteen percent of people said last time they or their partner externally ejaculated, it was onto the woman’s face, with 1 in 10 aiming for the lips (but not into the mouth). Not far behind were the woman’s chest (23.7 percent) and abdomen (19.8 percent), followed by her face. This may be the most convenient place to come when pulling out during face-to-face intercourse. The most common external landing spot, selected by 24.3 percent of people, was the mons pubis or “mound of Venus,” which is the fleshy pubic region above the outer labia.
To further explore external ejaculations, we showed our respondents a photo of a naked woman and asked them to click where they or their partner most recently externally ejaculated. Seventy-four percent of people said the man sometimes or often externally comes on the woman, with nearly 9 in 10 choosing the front of the woman’s body rather than the back. It’s this final ejaculation style that most intrigued us. Most people vary their finishing locations at least occasionally, as only 22 percent said the man never finishes in the woman’s mouth, and 10.7 percent said he never ejaculates externally somewhere on her body. Just over half of all people said the man frequently finishes in the woman’s mouth, and just more than 1 in 5 men ejaculate elsewhere, such as into a tissue or onto their own bodies. Ninety-two percent said they or their partner finish there “sometimes” or “often,” with one-third not using any form of birth control, 54 percent using a method of birth control other than a condom, and exactly half ejaculating into a condom. Where Americans Most Recently EjaculatedĪccording to the 740 sexually active Americans we surveyed, the most common place for a man to come is in a woman’s vagina. But you know what they say: Build it and they will, ahem, come. Needless to say, there are many graphic sexual references and barely concealed puns ahead. We’ll begin our jizz-themed jaunt by witnessing where people usually aim or receive ejaculations. There isn’t a fluid on Earth that has been as controversial, consequential and loaded with taboo as semen. Where a man finishes can therefore make all the difference, from accidental splashes that threaten presidencies to deliberate facials that ignite social debates. Some of those ejaculations are nothing more than messy inconveniences, but others are conscious celebrations – the come, swirling with symbolism, a manifestation of the man’s sex drive and essence, is the star of the show. In reality, most of the 300 million people around the world who have sex each day 1 don’t have pregnancy in mind, yet half of them ejaculate, and the river of semen they collectively produce – enough to fill 1,460 bathtubs 2 – has to end up somewhere, either by accident or design. Well, that is unless you are giving him a blow job. At the peak of stimulation, the nervous system triggers the release of sperm from the testes, which mixes with other fluids to make semen, which is then ejected in rhythmic pulses into the vaginal canal for its ultimate purpose: the conception of a baby.
In one regard, ejaculation is a simple physiological process. The resulting heat maps paint unique portraits of male and female sexual psychology, showing stark differences between men and women, real life and porn. To explore the psychology of male ejaculation, we conducted the world’s first “semen census” by asking 740 heterosexual American men and women where they or their partner most recently ejaculated, where they most and least enjoy coming, where they believe the opposite sex loves and hates it, and where they most recently saw a man ejaculate in porn.Īccuracy matters, so our survey takers gave their answers by precisely clicking on a photo of a naked woman.