Overweight Women More Likely To Report Ever Having Sex With A Man

Researchers in the US found that women who were overweight were more likely to report ever having sexual intercourse with a man, but apart from that women's sexual behavior did not vary by body mass index.

For the study, the researchers looked at data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth, which interviewed a nationally representative cross section of women aged 15 to 44 years regardless of reproductive health status. The height and weight measures were also self-reported.

The researchers looked at the links between body mass index and a number of sexual behavior measures, including orientation, age at first intercourse, ever having had sex with a male partner, the number of partners and frequency of intercourse. The sexual behavior was categorized by body mass index (BMI) groups: Normal (under 25 kg/m2), overweight (25 to 30 mg/m2) and obese (over 30 kg/m2).