Too much sex? Not enough? Whaa?

[alistaere.livejournal.com]

Just a simple question...

How often do you have sex say, per week? My boyfriend and I live about an hour away from each other and with our differing schedules we only see each other about once a week. When we do and are able to get some time alone we usually have sex, so for me it's about once a week, maybe twice. I'm fairly new to relationships (this is my first real boyfriend) so I'm really not sure how often is normal, although I know it has a lot to do with libido and other factors like that so I'm sure every couple is different.

I looked pretty much everywhere I could for just general sex statistics but I couldn't find anything so I figured I might get some answers here. : /

Oh, I'm new here, hey everybody~

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[justjess.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend and I live together and have been dating for almost 11 months now, and we have sex probably 2-3 times a week. I mean, things happen and it varies... we almost never have sex when I'm on my period because he's just not into it, but I'll usually give him a hand job or oral sex during that time because I enjoy making him happy. I had my tonsils out this past Tuesday, so with recovery time and antibiotics (I'm very prone to YIs, and we don't like using condoms, so even though I don't have a YI yet, we're playing it safe for now) and being separated (he's at our apartment, I'm at my parents' house), plus with my period being due this coming Wednesday, we probably won't have sex until next Sunday or so, and we haven't had it since last Saturday.
It really all depends. When things are normal, it's probably 2-3 times a week, like I said, but we're both very busy and tired all the time, and we tend to not have sex when we have people over, et cetera...
What I'm trying to get at is that there's no "normal" number of times to have sex, and there probably aren't many statistics because there are so many variants from couple to couple. Whatever you have time for and whatever makes you happy is what you should aim for. When we first started sleeping together, we had sex pretty much every night, but we don't seem to need to do it as often anymore - and we're all right with it. Whatever suits your needs as a couple is just right. =) How often you have sex isn't something you should worry about unless you find that you have different opinions regarding how much is too much or too little or different libidos - and that's when it can get tricky. So don't over-think a good sex life. =)

[justjess.livejournal.com]

And just so that I'm not pointing out all of the "bad" things - the last time we had sex, we had it twice in one night and it was INCREDIBLE. Sometimes the old adage about quality over quantity is valid too. =)

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