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10 Surprising Charts About Sex

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If you're a regular Twitter user, you're likely to have short relationships. It's also more likely that you masturbated today.

Using data gleaned from its 7 million members, dating site OkCupid has discovered these correlations, among lots of others, and published them in a collection of highly revealing charts.

The site looked at factors from age to religion to meat-eating habits and came up with some unexpected conclusions -- who knew that vegetarians had such positive feelings towards oral sex?

We've picked out some of the best factoids. Head to OKCupid's blog to see an interactive chart that plots college tuition against how frequently students at that college like to have sex, and other cool moveable charts.

42 year old women who exercise find it easiest to achieve orgasm

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Source: OkTrends

Half of 60-year-old men prefer rough sex -- but no 60-year-old women do

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Source: OkTrends

Vegetarians are much more enthusiastic about giving oral sex than carnivores

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Source: OkTrends

Twitter users find themselves in shorter relationships than non-tweeters

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Source: OkTrends

Twitter users masturbate more

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Over 20 percent of Jewish women claim they've never masturbated

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Source: OkTrends

Curvy women surpass skinny ones in self confidence at age 29

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Source: OkTrends

Men of all body types have roughly the same peak sex drive

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Students at private colleges are hornier than students at public schools -- and Sarah Lawrence students are the horniest of all.

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Switzerland has a higher percentage of people looking for casual sex than any other country.

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Julie Zeveloff
Julie Zeveloff West is Director of Editorial Product Strategy at Business Insider. She was previously Chief of Staff to Business Insider's editor-in-chief.Julie was the editor-in-chief of the Life division, where she oversaw Business Insider's entertainment, health, food, travel, style, parenting, and digital culture coverage. She was also a Deputy Editor for the site's business section, where she oversaw the lifestyle, transportation, retail, education, and lists & rankings sections, as well as its social media and graphic design teams. Before joining Business Insider in 2010, she was a reporter at Law360, where she covered international trade.In 2019, she was chosen as one of the Folio: Top Women in Media honorees in the Up and Comers category. Julie graduated from Cornell University and holds a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.