Sex and the Guardian: readers confess all

20,379 Guardian readers decided to tell us about their sex lives (given that most surveys take 1,000 responses as a solid base, that's a pretty strong starting point).*Never had sex1,334 readers, 7% of those that responded, told us they had never had sex. Most of those were younger adults but 32 were more than 65 years old.Though twice as many men responded as women, overall they were just as likely to be virgins – about 6 in every 100 adults.Had sex in the past four weeks43% of respondents told us they had not had sex in the past four weeks. That is double the proportion in the official statistics we had reported on.The secretsShortly after launching the piece, we decided to add one extra question to the survey. It merely said: "Anything else?", an open request to which one reader responded: "You want my bank details?" and another suggested: "Why not ask NSA." But others took to the task and what they shared was strange, depressing, joyous or just plain revealing.Response No 39: "Yes I've had sex in the past 4 weeks, but before that period there was a gap of 6 years …"Response No 118: "When you're not having sex it feels like everyone else is – thanks to the survey it makes me feel less of a freak."Response No 2510: "I had a burger for lunch."Response No 2607: "I feel deprived."Response No 2734: "Husband and I both had colds."Response No 2991: "Genuinely happy not to be sexually active any more!"Response No 4,567: "I'm ugly."Response No 11,893: "Help me sue Steve Carell for the humiliation I now have to face." (A man aged between 45-54 who had never had sex.)Ten readers who hadn't had sex in the past four weeks told us they were widowers and 15 readers told us that their partner was currently living abroad.Readers also used the information box to tell us the age that they first had sex, how long it had been since they last had sex and even whether or not they enjoyed their last sexual experience. Almost 300 people spontaneously shared whether or not they were married and almost one in every five felt it was important to let us know whether they were homosexual or heterosexual (surprisingly, there were almost equal numbers of each).(theguardian.com)ANN.Az