Accepted for/Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Date Submitted: Nov 2, 2018
Open Peer Review Period: Nov 3, 2018 - Dec 29, 2018
Date Accepted: Jan 28, 2020
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A Nationwide Cyber-Physical Human Sexual Behavior Acquisition System
ABSTRACT
Background:
Sex is a natural behavior for human being, and human sexual health is one of the principal components of human well-being. Traditional technologies for human sexual behavior (e.g., human sexual length) observation are mainly interview- or stopwatch-based. The data obtained by the traditional solutions would be biased and sample-limited.
Objective:
To address the limitations of the traditional sexual behavior data observation methods, a novel cyber-physical system is proposed to capture nationwide natural human sexual behavior data.
Methods:
A cyber-physical human sexual behavior acquisition system, termed as SeBA, is designed and implemented. The proposed SeBA jointly utilizes the state-of-art information and communication technologies, such as smart sex toys, smart phone, and mobile social network. Smart sex toys enable the objective human sexual behavior collection, while the mobile social network provides the abilities of partnered sex (PS) in cyber-physical manner. The objectives and function settings are discussed, and the overall framework of the system architecture are presented.
Results:
Operation and privacy policies are proposed and the technical solution of the SeBA is given out, followed by the usage process for users. The effectiveness of the SeBA is verified by users’ human sexual behavior data from Jau. 2016 to Jun. 2017. 103,424 solo sex (SS) sexual behaviors were recorded involving 13,047 users, and 61,007 PS sexual behaviors from 7,140 users are observed. The proportions of male and female in SM and PM are fairly consistent with recent statistics on unmarried individuals in China. We also find that only a small portion of individuals have at least one other attributes except gender, e.g., age, height, location, jobs, sex likes, purposes, and interests.
Conclusions:
To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first study to observe the nationwide objective human sexual behavior data. Although the data were restricted to China, this study can illuminate sexual studies by using huge amount of data from wireless smart sex toys all around the world. It is anticipated that findings from these more objective big data can help deepen our understanding of sexual behavior, as well as improve sexual health and sexual wellness.
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