- Hey everybody, welcome back to my channel.
I am very excited for this video
because it is the Hannah Witton Sex Survey 2021.
We're making this an annual thing.
We did our first sex survey last year.
It was a very official survey done on Instagram polls
and this year is no different.
This was really fun to do last year
and so I wanted to bring it back.
However, I got very overwhelmed
with figuring out what questions to ask,
how to improve it from last year.
Like, what do I want to do?
And then I realised
that I don't care to make this sex survey
a really robust methodological wow words.
The purpose of this survey is for fun.
It's for lols, it's to have us all come together,
and to be nosy about each other's sex lives.
It is not meant to be a proper robust survey
with proper methodology.
That is not what this is.
And I just had to accept it
and just have fun rather than stress.
And then I also decided that it was much easier for me
to come up with questions if I picked a specific theme.
Now this does mean that we can't compare years, two years,
because I decided I want to do a different theme every year
but I like that every year,
we'll be able to dive a bit deeper into some topics
because I also don't want to overwhelm you
with Instagram polls,
and it'd be like a really lengthy survey
for people to fill out.
I want it to be very quick, easy, fun.
That's my disclaimer.
So this year, the topic, the theme,
is obviously pandemic, sex, pandemic relationships.
Just how has the COVID 19 pandemic
impacted our relationships and our sex lives.
If you would like proper official data on sex,
then I would highly recommend that you check out NATSAL.
NATSAL is the National Survey
of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles
and it is a survey done every 10 years in the UK.
It's very broad.
They have so much data around our sex lives.
The last NATSAL survey, NATSAL-3, was done in 2010 to 2012,
and so now is the time for NATSAL-4.
And their website currently says
that they're going to start doing the stuff summer 2021.
It was meant to be last year
but they've had to postpone it because of COVID
but fingers crossed in the next year or so, year, two years,
we will have a new NATSAL survey
that we can like dive into the data off.
So look at that if you want proper research.
Watch this video if you want some lols,
some unofficial research.
So I started out with some demographic questions,
things that the Instagram demographics
and analytics doesn't give you
just so we can get a very brief idea
of who is responding to these questions.
So Instagram tells me that 33.6% of my audience
are in the UK, and then 26.5% are in the US
and then Australia, Canada, India, that's new, hello.
And then the age range,
I actually believe has gone up since last year.
I feel like last year, my majority was the 18 to 24s,
but loads of you seem to have turned 25 in the last year.
So 44.9% of my Instagram followers are 25 to 34
and then 40.5% are 18 to 24.
So our main chunk are the 18 to 34 year olds.
And then gender splits, what Instagram tells me is that
73.1% are women and 26.9% are men.
But with my survey,
we will be able to go a little less binary with all of that.
Before we get into this,
how many people actually answered to the survey?
It will change per question
because some people won't answer all of the questions,
but roughly 40,000 people.
So that's more than that NATSAL got
but we don't have the proper methodology here.
So first question, are you single or in a relationship?
40% of you are single and 60% of you are in a relationship.
I don't really have anything to say about that
but that's just good to know going forwards.
Are you LGBTQIA+?
This is really interesting, 41% ,41%.
Are you on the asexual spectrum?
9% said yes.
Are you on the aromantic spectrum?
4% said yes.
And obviously, there will be some people who are asexual
and aromantic,
and that is where the Instagram polls don't work.
So we don't know how many people are both.
Are you trans or non-binary?
4% have said yes.
I have no idea if there is any data out there
about the population as a whole,
but 4%, that is a pretty sizable minority.
Are you sexually active?
73% said yes and 27% said no.
I thought this was important question to ask
'cause I'm asking about people's sex lives,
and so then we need to kind of like know how many people
out of the total is that roughly being applied to.
And also, it's just absolutely fine
if you're not sexually active for whatever reason.
Okay, and now we're getting on to the pandemic questions.
I had to do a couple that were quizzes on Instagram
because I needed more than two answers.
It's just for these first two questions,
then everything else is just like a quick poll.
During the pandemic, have you had more or less sex
than your normal?
So the options were more, less, the same,
or, I don't have sex.
Most people said less, and then it was the same,
and then it was, I don't have sex.
And then just below I don't have sex, it was more.
So that was really interesting for most people,
like a sizeable chunk.
Why do I say in this?
I think I'm having more sex than normal
but that might have something to do
with trying to get pregnant, not the pandemic.
So it's kind of been overridden in our case.
During the pandemic, have you masturbated more
or less than your normal?
Oh, oh my goodness!
There's like 200 people difference
between more and the same.
So most people have been masturbating more.
So 13,700 people are masturbating more,
13,500 people about the same, 8,000 less,
and then just under 3000 that don't masturbate.
That's really interesting.
So we're all having less sex, but more masturbation.
I mean, we could have made an educated guess about that.
During the pandemic,
have you and your partner been separated,
not able to see each other?
And so I tried to make sure
people who answered this question
were only people who were in a relationship.
Who knows if people stuck to the rules.
So of people, in theory, who are in a relationship,
38% of them were separated from their partner
due to the pandemic, 62% not.
During the pandemic, have you been online dating?
24% of you said yes and 76% said no.
I don't know if a lot of that 76%
is because people are in relationships.
I didn't want to exclude people in relationships
from this question, in case they were non-monogamous.
And so still potentially online dating,
but yeah, that's the problem with this survey.
We can't really like, what else does this mean?
Other than, a quarter of people who've been online dating.
During the pandemic, have you had a remote/long distance
first date with someone?
And I wanted to be really specific
about it being a first date.
And 10% of you said yes, that's exciting.
One in 10 people, love it.
During the day pandemic, have you moved in with a partner?
And 17% of you said yes.
And there was a follow-up question to this.
Did the pandemic play a role
in the decision to move in together?
And 21% of you said yes.
And that's really interesting like,
probably thought that it would be higher than that
but I guess lots of people would have been planning
on moving in together anyway.
And maybe there's people out there,
who the pandemic has stopped them from moving in together.
So like the opposite of this question, rather than like
forcing them to move in together
sooner than they would have.
That question is also just a bit more complicated
because there's lots of factors
to why you would move in together.
During the pandemic, have you bought a sex toy?
And 34% of you said yes, and 66% said no.
Because I have the Lovehoney discount, like affiliate link,
I can track and see like how many people
are using my discount code
and more people in 2020 have been using that discount code
than I have experienced
like other years that I've had that affiliate link.
So from my point of view, I'm just like, whoa!
People are really buying sex toys this year
but I also don't know if it was because
I was making more sex toy content, I don't know.
If you want 15% of Lovehoney, link in the description.
And then if you were someone who did buy a sex toy,
was it your first sex toy?
And 19 percent of you said yes.
How was it, how was your first sex toy?
What did you get?
I'm intrigued.
During the pandemic, have you started a new relationship?
And 13% of you said yes, that's so exciting.
Did you meet them online?
Was it like doing it remotely?
Or was it somebody that like you already knew
before the pandemic and then the pandemic like,
I don't know, you got talking over Zoom
and you were like, "Oh, hey, maybe we like each other."
I want to know about all of the new relationships
that started during the pandemic.
During the pandemic, have you had a relationship end?
And it's the same, 13%.
What is going on that, spooky?
I'm really sorry if you had a relationship end
during the pandemic, that must be really hard.
During the pandemic, have you had digital sex?
And I kind of described digital sex as all of the things,
so like sexting, phone sex, video sex,
anything that is sexual with another person using technology
or using digital technology
because a sex toys also technology.
And 27% of you said yes.
And I wonder if that's higher
than it would have been without a pandemic.
I don't know, I don't know the data.
During the pandemic, have you tried a new kink?
25% said yes.
One in four, one in four people.
Ooh, this is the one that everybody wanted to know about.
During the pandemic,
have you broken lockdown rules to have sex?
And it's 19%.
That's almost one in five, that's a lot.
And like, I want to condemn it.
I do condemn it, but I also...
Do I understand?
I don't know, it's really hard for me to judge
as somebody who lives with my partner
and lives with the person who I have sex with.
It's hard, I get it, but nobody died from not having sex.
But lots of are dying from COVID.
I don't want to be too judgmental, but it's really,
it's hard, it's hard.
During the pandemic, have you had to cancel your wedding?
And I asked the only people who had weddings planned
during the pandemic to answer this.
And 6% said yes and 94% said no.
So that's really interesting to me.
Unless lots of people
who weren't planning on getting married
answered this question anyway,
but 1000 people had their wedding cancelled
out of my Instagram followers, and 17,000 people.
So what this means
if everybody answered this survey correctly,
is that 17,000 people
managed to get married during the pandemic.
I mean, I'm one of them.
And if you think about it, a wedding is two people.
So that's how many weddings, in theory,
not all of these people are marrying each other, obviously,
but that doesn't make sense to me
'cause weddings were literally cancelled.
Like you couldn't even have a registry office wedding
for so long, and I don't know if you can now,
like we're in another national lockdown, interesting.
During the pandemic,
have you made a discovery slash/something new
about your sexuality and gender?
And this is inspired by my friend, Elena,
who realised that she was gay during the pandemic.
And she came on my podcast actually, to talk all about that.
So if you want to hear all about her journey
discovering her sexuality during the ,
definitely check out that podcast.
but 34% of you said yes.
That is so many people.
Granted, even without a pandemic,
people discover things about their gender
and their sexuality all of the time,
but that's still like a lot of people
who are like going through something in terms of like
their sexuality and their identity this year.
I hope that process has been as smooth and empowering
and rewarding as possible for you.
During the pandemic, have you come out as LGBTQIA+?
And 9% said yes.
So congratulations to you all.
I hope that that was a good experience for you.
And then of course,
I had to ask some questions about OnlyFans.
During the pandemic,
have you started an OnlyFans account as a creator?
I said creator 'cause I don't actually know
what like people who post content on OnlyFans are called.
So I just use creator.
But 1% of people said yes, and that was 494 people.
So that's really cool.
And then the flip side of that.
During the pandemic,
have you signed up to a creators OnlyFans account?
And 7% said yes.
And I love that, pay sex workers.
If you're going to be consuming their content,
if you're going to be consuming pornography,
pay the performance, pay the creators.
We did it!
So there you have it.
That is the Hannah Witton Sex Survey 2021.
I really love the idea of making this an annual thing.
And if you have any suggestions
for themes that we can go into,
but obviously ,we have no idea what 2021 will bring us.
Maybe something else
that we'll want to dive into our sexual attitudes around.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey
and answered my poll questions.
I hope that you enjoyed filling out.
Like I know that I love doing quizzes
and polls and all sorts of stuff.
So I hope that was fun for you too.
I'd love to hear your thoughts
on any of the discoveries that we made
in the comments, and follow me on Instagram.
That's where stuff goes down sometimes, like these polls.
I hope that you are well,
I hope that you are staying safe well
and to staying at home,
and I will see you in my next video, bye.