The idea of anal intercourse affects different people very differently. Perhaps no common sexual practice so emphatically turns some people on while just as emphatically turning others off. A great percentage of us have at least tried it.

A survey by Redbook magazine reported that forty-seven percent of the married women responding said they had tried anal sex—but half of them didn’t like it. In a Playboy survey, sixty-one percent of the female respondents claimed to have tried anal intercourse—but only forty-seven percent of the men said that they had done so. (Here apparently we have scientific proof that some guys get all the ass).

A survey of rural Brazilians revealed an even more interesting flipside of this question: it seems that many young Brazilian couples make use of anal intercourse as a form of chastity because it allows the girl to still be a virgin on her wedding day.

What percentage of men and women, straight and gay, have fantasized about what it might be like to get buttfucked, or experimented with anal toys? More than would admit to it under questioning, certainly.