Table 3.
Prevalence of the use of sexual positions in the past 5 years and gender differences in frequency in heterosexual men and women
| Position | Past 5 years prevalence |
Z‡ | Cohen's d | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men |
Women |
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| N | %∗ | Mdn (M)† | n | %∗ | Mdn (M)† | |||
| A = Face to face/male above | 10,581 | 96.8 | 80 (69.45) | 9,280 | 97.5 | 80 (70.82) | −2.58∗ | .00 |
| B = Prone rear entry | 9,946 | 91.8 | 24 (33.23) | 8,846 | 93.0 | 30 (38.62) | −11.19∗∗ | .00 |
| C = Standing/face to face | 8,646 | 75.3 | 4 (9.56) | 7,751 | 74.2 | 4 (10.11) | −0.34 | .00 |
| D = Standing | 9,457 | 84.7 | 10 (23.06) | 8,090 | 79.9 | 10 (20.98) | −8.40∗∗ | .00 |
| E = Face to face/female above | 10,167 | 94.7 | 40 (44.04) | 8,882 | 94.7 | 40 (44.82) | −1.39 | .00 |
| F = Supine/female above | 8,633 | 77.7 | 6 (14.9) | 7,806 | 77.3 | 5 (15.66) | −0.22 | .00 |
| G = Fellatio/standing | 9,644 | 88.7 | 19 (30.48) | 8,588 | 89.5 | 26 (36.14) | −11.29∗∗ | .00 |
| H = Kneeling/rear entry | 10,019 | 93.7 | 38 (42.31) | 8,885 | 94.3 | 42 (46.33) | −8.34∗∗ | .00 |
| I = Sitting/face to face | 9,220 | 85.7 | 11 (22.27) | 8,349 | 87.3 | 15 (24.68) | −5.48∗∗ | .00 |
| J = Standing/rear entry | 9,195 | 83.5 | 10 (19.72) | 8,161 | 83.3 | 10 (21.19) | −2.04∗ | .00 |
| K = Cunnilingus | 9,884 | 92.2 | 39 (44.36) | 8,484 | 89.8 | 30 (37.57) | −13.64∗∗ | .01 |
| L = Sixty-nine | 9,378 | 85.4 | 10 (22.25) | 8,527 | 83.7 | 10 (20.49) | −5.63∗∗ | .00 |
| M = Fellatio/female above | 9,861 | 91.8 | 32 (40.26) | 8,592 | 91.3 | 40 (44.73) | −8.56∗∗ | .00 |
Missing values excluded.
∗P < .01. ∗∗P < .001.
∗
Binary value.
†
Median (mean) for the percentage of sexual encounters when the position was used in the past 5 years (from 0% to 100%).
‡
Z score for Mann-Whitney U test.