Eric Barker’s excellent Barking Up The Wrong Tree blog describes, in short pithy posts, dozens of psychological truisms and well-being lifehacks with research to back them up. I’ve linked him several times.
In a pair of posts outlining how yoga improves sexual performance in both men and women, he cites studies which use two indices of sexual function to measure the effect of lifestyle habits on men’s and women’s sexual health. (A significant part of psychological research canon is the development of measurement systems for human behaviors that can’t be expressed with rulers, clocks or scales.)
The Male Sexual Quotient or MSQ is a ten-question exam distilling sexual functioning into a single numerical metric. This abstract from Johns Hopkins noted that the average time to complete the exam was 11 minutes, and that 46% of men taking the survey exhibited, um, premature finishing. It took half the guys longer to finish the exam than to finish.*
The Female Sexual Function Index or FSFI uses 19 questions to rate female function in six categories: desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, and pain. (I suppose that’s a testament to the complexity of female sexuality.)
OK, so out with it – take the appropriate exam and post your numbers!
The Male Sexual Quotient exam was cribbed from a Google Books link here.
Answer this questionnaire honestly based on the last 6 months of your sex life, rating your answer as follows.
1 = infrequently or rarely
2 = sometimes
3 = nearly 50% of the time
4 = most of the time
5 = always
1. Is your desire high enough to encourage you to initiate sexual intercourse?
2. Do you feel confident in your ability of seduction?
3. Do you feel that foreplay is enjoyable and satisfying for both you and your partner?
4. Is your own sexual performance affected by your partner’s sexual satisfaction?
5. Can you maintain an erection sufficiently in order to complete sexual activity in a satisfactory way?
6. After sexual stimulation, is your erection hard enough to ensure satisfying intercourse?
7. Are you able to consistently obtain and maintain an erection whenever you have sexual activity?
8. Are you able to control ejaculation so that sexual activity lasts as long as you want?
9. Are you able to reach orgasm during sex?
10. Does your sexual performance encourage you to enjoy sex more frequently?
TOTAL MAXIMUM SCORE: 50. Add up the numbers and multiply by 2.
82-100: Highly sassified.**
62-80: Partially sassified.
0-20: Highly dissassified.
**”Sassified” is not in my browser’s spelling dictionary.