Single Britons are the most promiscuous, or so says an international survey of sexual attitudes.
It found that 59 percent of Britons thought it normal for a 30-something to have had 10 or more lovers before getting married.
In China the proportion was 17 percent, in France 30 percent, in the US 49 percent and in Germany 52 percent.
Less than half of British respondents said staying faithful to one partner was natural: 42 percent believed monogamy was "the natural state for human beings," compared with 70 percent in China, 57 percent in the US and 44 percent in France. Only the Germans had a lower fidelity score. But 23 percent of Chinese thought "extramarital affairs in which nobody gets hurt" were acceptable, compared with 11 percent of Britons and 9 percent of Americans.
In all countries except Britain, men were more tolerant of affairs than women. In the US, 13 percent of men thought them acceptable, but only 4 percent of women did. In Germany it was 28 percent of men to 16 percent of women, while in Britain, 11 percent of both sexes said affairs which caused pain to neither party were acceptable.
Nearly 66 percent of British men thought they were entitled to expect regular sex with their partners, compared with 47 percent of British women.
In the US the ratio was 76 percent for men to 62 percent for women. But in other countries the expectation gap was narrower: in France it was 85 percent of men to 76 percent of women, in China 82 percent to 81 percent, and in Germany 79 percent to 77 percent.
In all countries women were more likely than men to think that same-sex partnerships should be given equal status to heterosexual marriages.
In Britain the proposition was backed by 52 percent of women and 37 percent of men.
In the US, 39 percent said their sexual behavior was influenced by religion, compared with 16 percent in Britain and 3 percent in France.
The online survey by Euro RSCG Worldwide, a New York marketing agency, used samples of 1,982 Americans, 2,127 British, 2,000 French, 3,158 Germans and 2,079 Chinese.
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