Saturday 18 October, 2008Sex toys and videotape titillate Brits

Not-so-proper Brits admit they're thinking about giving their Valentine a porn flick this year. More than two-thirds confess to enjoying porn with their partner, and more than half keep a stash of sex toys on hand.

A new survey of 1,200 people marked the UK launch of Wicked Pictures, a leading American maker of adult films. Though most say they're reluctant to talk about their sexual preferences with anyone but their partner, a whopping 85 percent are quite open in the bedroom, no longer bothering to hide their private stash of pornography and actually preferring to get their partner's approval.

In fact, the researchers found that fully 69 percent approve of the porn industry and 58 percent own erotic films, magazines, or sex toys. Movies are the biggest turn-on—64 percent share them with their partner, and more than 40 percent use them specifically to get aroused.

Both sexes admit that watching hardcore action turns them on (70 percent of women and 83 percent of men). But most women (four to one) still think that real, live men are more stimulating than dirty movies, while nearly half the men (43 percent) find movies more exciting than women.

Either way, two-thirds of all adults polled said they would be happy to buy more porn, except they find it so darn embarrassing. But those hardy souls that don't mind too much (more than 22 percent of those surveyed) figured they've spent more than £100 (nearly US$200) on pornographic material.

As for erotic fantasies, the favorites are threesomes, getting it on with a total stranger, and, somehow or other, sex while skydiving.