French Women: The New Sexual Predators

French women are becoming increasingly assertive in their sexual habits, while one-in-five younger French men "has no interest in sex", according to one of the most comprehensive surveys of the nation's love lives.

Women now have more than twice as many partners as they did in the 1970s, according to the study by the French Aids research agency, which is backed by the government.

"Are women just like men?" asked Le Nouvel Observateur yesterday, which released extracts of the Study on Sexuality in France, a 600-page tome that brings together 12,000 in-depth interviews with people of all ages conducted during 2005-06.

One of the biggest changes in recent years, according to the report, was that male and female sexual behaviour had become increasingly similar.

To read more on the sexual prowess of french women, click here.

Carla Bruni, the new wife of French president Nicholas Sarkozy, is one of HuffPost's fave frenchies. Her thoughts:

Female sexual emancipation has been a hot topic in France ever since President Nicolas Sarkozy met Carla Bruni, the Italian model and singer. The couple married last month.

Ms Bruni recently declared monogamy "terribly boring" and spoke in relaxed fashion about her numerous past conquests, including Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton.

"I am a tamer [of men], a cat, an Italian", she told Le Figaro last year.

"I am faithful... to myself. I am monogamous from time to time but I prefer polygamy and polyandry [its female equivalent]."

You can find more of our thoughts on French women and what we can learn from them, here.

Comments

[mamacat]

I don't want to comment of the title of this article.

But.......­....let me use this opportunity to point out a glaring difference between European and American women. In Europe, women do not feel the need to alter their bodies with surgery the way American women do, and they are better for it.

The constant trips to the plastic surgeon of American women is much rarer in Europe. What is the attraction of looking at plastic breasts and lips? Instead of liposuction, how about less time in front of the TV?

[VictorLudorum]

france has self made chairwomen?

[NotWaldo]

"I love french women. Espescially with a good Chianti"

Hannibal Lecter

[valleygent]

time to move to France...! Ha ha.

[auramac]

Moral of the story- don't marry a "polyandri­st."

[johnnyjust]

Some people want to be the only one, but an amazing number of people don't care if they're just another one.

I'm not much on leftovers.

[kardwell]

If you read the full article written by Mr. Henry Samuel, nowhere do you see French women being catagorized as "predators" for enjoying and embracing their sexuality.

Apparently, Varena, the author cited above isn't getting any thus feels some sort of perverted jealousy towards French women who have a healthy relationship with themselves and their sensuality.

What surprises me is that the Telegraph author, Varena, is likely European as well, perhaps of German descent, and we all know that Germans have exceptionally healthy attitudes towards sex.

So who is responsible for the headline -- "French Women: The New Sexual Predators" ? Most likely an American, I would guess. Because it is only here that we have such a distorted and sick perception of sex and women, and women and their relationship with sex. It is only here that the naked body, particularly the nipple (OH MY!) is so deeply feared that even a woman breastfeeding her infant is either pornographically objectified or crucified or arrested for "indecent exposure." Only here do we idealize women turned into mute inflatable dolls with their bodies implanted with plastics and chemicals and call them beautiful, perfection -- this is the twisted American divine. It is an aggressive and violent and sick mentality - the American view of sex. So, the word "predatory" to describe a woman grounded in her own sensuality, engaged in the expression of her own identity fully is very American thinking.

So pathetic..­..

[wesinohio]

I want to visit France again. I've met a lot of Quebeceurs in Mexico, and I hitchhiked up in Quebec Province thirty-four years ago. I love the French.

[loki]

But is it predatory if the prey doesnt mind?

[protagonia]

Most American men aren't prey for sex, they're PRAY for sex!

[Katbird]

There are some of you who seem to have attitudes from another era. There are some of you who clearly have never been to or lived in France and/or don't know any French women. They bathe, they shave and would probably not have anything to do with the likes of you.

[totaldisbelief]

Oh by all means, send them over here.

[lakat]

Puh-lease! You guys think you want a non-stop yes-woman for a lover but you DON'T. Men don't really like women who have experience and let you know they want sex unless it's a one-night-stand. Too much pressure. Admit it, you LIKE being married to the woman who says no so you can have an excuse to stop having sex with your wife. If men would give it up regularly, women wouldn't have to have multiple partners.

Walk the walk, boys.

[NoSillyName]

Why am I not surprised by the sophomoric responses to this "news"?

[Tyrione]

I suggest you get past the tenth grade and move forward into your University years with the rest of us. What is sophomoric and repressive are the priggish attitudes reminiscent of the 50s still being pushed down everyone's throats.

We still think of sex as something curious and taboo. Get past this and you see it as a normal, healthy part of a person's well-being.

[NoSillyName]

Tyrione, its not the story that is sophomoric, its the adolescent posts... "Where's my passport?", "I'm moving to France!", etc. I'm educated; can you read the word "responses" after the word "sophomoric" in my original post? I know this is a ridiculously puritanical society that glorifies violence yet gets bent out of shape at the mere suggestion of sex or nudity. You took the time to criticize me without knowing anything about my views. Your error.

[hydenorhare]

I can get behind that.

[WomanInOrangeSweater]

What a stupid article. Predators? And using Carla Bruni as an example...­an Italian woman?

[misanthropist]

haha, agreed.

[Katie]

My thoughts exactly!!! Super dumb article...­and Carla Bruni is not even French!

[Rog49Thomas]

This, I suppose, is just the sort of thing that socialized medicine leads to.

[getoffmedz]

Rog49Thomas - please, care to explain the connection?

Otherwise, WTF

[wanked]

Comparing French women to American women=comparing Carla Bruni to laura bush.