Single vs attached: which South Africans are having the best sex?

Here's a sneak peek at some of the juicy insights we gleaned from the 2018 Sunday Times Lifestyle Sex Survey

30 November 2018 - 12:45 By Staff reporter
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75% of South Africans believe that not having sex is a relationship deal-breaker, according to the 2018 Sunday Times Lifestyle Sex Survey.
75% of South Africans believe that not having sex is a relationship deal-breaker, according to the 2018 Sunday Times Lifestyle Sex Survey.
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What is Mzansi's favourite sex position? How saucy are we in the sack? And how do we feel about interracial dating? The annual Sunday Times Lifestyle Sex Survey revealed the answers to all these questions and more.

Bigger and better than last year, the 2018 survey* had an impressive 3,500 respondents making it one of the largest in the country. We'll share the juiciest insights in the Sunday Times Lifestyle supplement on Sunday, December 2. (Subscribe to read it online.) 

In the meantime, here's a sneak peek at some of the results:

*The Sunday Times Lifestyle Sex Survey was conducted in association with local research house Ratepop, using its proprietary chatbot technology. Over 3,500 individual South Africans answered the survey, which was hosted on Facebook Messenger. The respondents' identities were kept strictly confidential.

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