Sex Is The Key To Happiness For Frenchmen, While Women Prefer Chocolate

French Women Prefer Chocolate To Sex
A woman puts in her mouth a coated marshmallow bear (petit ourson en guimauve) on August 23, 2012, at the headquarters of the French group CEMOI, specialized in the manufacturing of confectionery and chocolate, in the southern French city of Perpignan. The marshmallow bear celebrate its 50th anniversary this year. AFP PHOTO / RAYMOND ROIG (Photo credit should read RAYMOND ROIG/AFP/GettyImages)
A woman puts in her mouth a coated marshmallow bear (petit ourson en guimauve) on August 23, 2012, at the headquarters of the French group CEMOI, specialized in the manufacturing of confectionery and chocolate, in the southern French city of Perpignan. The marshmallow bear celebrate its 50th anniversary this year. AFP PHOTO / RAYMOND ROIG (Photo credit should read RAYMOND ROIG/AFP/GettyImages)

PARIS, April 30 (Reuters) - French men believe sex is the surest route to happiness but for French women the key to felicity is food, according to a poll published on Wednesday.

Chocolate, cheese and foie gras, a festive French delicacy made from the livers of force-fed ducks, top the league table of happiness-procuring victuals, the Harris Interactive poll found.

While the French rate sex and food equally as catalysts of well-being, giving both a score of 7.1 on a scale of 0 to 10, men rate sex at 7.5 while women gave it a less convincing 6.7.

For foodies of either gender, chocolate took top place in the pursuit of happiness, followed by cheese, foie gras, shellfish, strawberries, steak and bread.

Women more often cited chocolate or strawberries and men more often plumped for meatier options like foie gras and steak.

Asked to choose between cutting back on sex or cutting back on food, female poll respondents were more willing to do without the former than men, according to Harris Interactive, which surveyed 1,000 adults on March 18-20.

"One last thing we should highlight is that for 72 percent of French people it's worse to have a partner who's bad in bed than bad in the kitchen," the polling agency said.

The full survey can be seen at http://www.harrisinteractive.fr/news/2014/Results_HIFR_Grazia_30042014.pdf

(Reporting by Brian Love; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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