35% of French people prefer to eat than to have sex, according to a new survey by IFOP and Just Eat.
- More than one in three French people prefer food to sex
- A more marked trend among women, who favor food at 41%, and sex at only 5%.
For Valentine’s Day, the French will clearly prefer to dine alone together than to make love, according to a new poll* from IFOP and Just Eat.
“It would seem that it is without appeal, food represents THE absolute comfort of our past confinements, where sex takes second place”, comment the pollsters. 35% of French people prefer eating to having sex. A more marked trend among women, who favor food at 41%, and sex at only 5%. “And when we know that around 1/3 of French people have been confined alone, with a proportion that even rises to 60% among 18-24 year olds, we are not surprised that they are 44% in this bracket. age at choosing food first intent!”, add the authors of the survey.
Combine the two pleasures
However, many people combine the two pleasures. Already, before the pandemic in early 2020, 53% of French people said they were in favor of the idea of combining business with pleasure by using food during their sexual intercourse. 60% believed that even if it was not compulsory, it was always more pleasant to precede a good meal in the restaurant to a sexual intercourse.
“The confinements have reshuffled the cards in the daily life of the French!”continue the pollsters. “When life oscillates between telework and end of social life, the need to occupy one’s time is strongly felt”, they analyze. To entertain themselves during confinements and curfews, the French once again prefer food: 57% have embarked on the joys of culinary activities and 35% in new sexual practices…
Decreased libido
If food comforted the French during the first confinement (46% of them), it would seem that during the second, this palliative was not as effective… Only 34% of the French continued to grant food. importance to food from October to December 2020, a drop of 12 points. On the sex side, the same observation: its importance is declining in the hearts of the French. They were 20% to favor sex over food during spring confinement, against only 17% this winter. “It should be noted that more than 1 in 10 French people (12%) declare that they have lost their libido stuck between four walls…”, conclude the IFOP and Just Eat.
*Study carried out from January 13 to 15, 2021 by the IFOP institute for Just Eat with a sample of 1,013 people aged 18 and over (national sample representative of the French population).
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