A survey conducted in 31 provinces and cities, including Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan, has found that marital unions are least strong on average between three and five years after marriage, contradicting the myth of the “seven-year itch.”
Researchers surveyed more than 80,000 people in a joint study organized by Peking University and dating site Baihe.com, and found that about 11 percent of those married for three to five years said they would not stay with their partner if given a second chance.
Almost 9 percent simply said that they would rather be single.
The research also concluded that more than half of those with marital issues said the problems were linked to extramarital affairs, reports the Standard.
Women with children were considered a particularly vulnerable group to feelings of inadequate satisfaction, because of the dual pressure from their occupation and the responsibility for taking care of children and elderly relatives.
According to the study, only 2.1 percent of respondents indicated that fathers participated in taking care of their children.
In terms of liberal attitudes toward sexual intercourse, teenagers were unsurprisingly determined to be “more open” toward the subject, with survey participants claiming to have first had sex between the ages of 17.71 and 22.17, on average.
Furthermore, respondents from Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan were found to be more sexually liberal than their counterparts in mainland China. Respondents from the three areas reported that they had had their first sexual experience at an average age of 19.24, compared with Beijing teenagers who average 20.63.
In terms of the practice of “safe sex,” younger people in the Greater China region appear to be more proactive.
The survey found that most of the respondents under the age of 30 said that they used contraceptives. However, only 20 percent of those over the age 46 said that they used the same safety precautions.
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