Making Whoopee!

Maximum City scores the most points for being best suited for flings, followed not so closely by Delhi and Goa. And while parties remain the usual suspects, social networking sites have become a virtual pleasure trove of no-strings-attached liaisons. Thankfully, it’s not so casual where it counts: 58 per cent play it safe and protected and only 1.2 per cent appear blissfully careless. But before you announce romps the new national pastime, here are some more numbers for you to do the math with: over 80 per cent respondents claim to have never had paid sex, nearly 70 per cent have never had a one-night stand and half of them say they were stopped from straying by shaadi and parivaar. It happens only in India?

• 60.4 Percentage of Bangaloreans who think more partners makes for a more fulfilling sex life
• 24.0 Percentage of Hyderabadis whose preferred sexual indulgence is partner-swapping
• 100 Everyone in Chennai feels that a hotel room is the only place for a one-night stand

• 91.9 Percentage of Chennaiites will not have sex with a person of different religion or ethnicity
• 49.8 Percentage of respondents who say they would never again indulge in a one-night stand
• 95.2 Percentage of Bangaloreans who cite being ‘under the influence’ as reason for a one-night stand

• 58.4 Percentage of Bangaloreans who admit to a tie-up solely for sexual gratification
• 66.9 Per cent of people who had a phone/cyber sex encounter and later met ‘The Partner’
• 77 per cent in Guwahati say casual sex encounters there are initiated by the womenfolk

• 45 Per cent in Chandigarh say they will forgive a partner  who has indulged in casual sex
• 80 Per cent of respondents in Hyderabad feel that casual sex is a great stress-buster
• 53.8 Per cent of Delhiites have lost count of the number of times they have paid for sex  
• 23.8 Percentage of Bangaloreans who have had casual sex with someone of the same gender