People having less sex amid economicslump: survey
Tiau5cha: Si5ki bai2, Takke khah bo teh cho3ai3 2001/11/28
TAIPEI, AFP
/ Alai hoanek
Lovemaking among local adults has fallen to a four-year low, a survey showed yesterday, with doctors linking the decline to the economic slump weighing on the island.
/ Punte toalang cho3ai3 e taichi lak-kau3 4-ni lai siong7 ke7, cha-hng hoatpiau e chit-e tiaucha anne kong, iseng kong che si inui kengkhi bai2 e eng2hiong2. Taiwan's adults are having sex on average 65 times a year, down from 78 last year, according to a multi-nation survey conducted in March by the Durex condom company.
/ Taioan toalang chit-ni cho3ai3 pengkin 65-kai2, ui kuni e 78-kai lak-lohlai, che si Nurex condom [anchoan-tho] kongsi ti kuia kok tiaucha e kiatko. A total of 18,500 adults from 28 countries were surveyed, with 600 samples taken in Taiwan. The island ranked third last inthe global love-making league which produced an average figure of 97 times a year.
/ Longchong tiaucha 28-kok e 18,500-e toalang, Taioan u 600 lang. Ti choankiu cho3ai3 pai5mia, Taioan si boeliu te-3 mia, chong-pengkin si chit-ni 97-kai. The United States topped the survey listwith an average of 124 sessions a year, followed by 117 sessions in Greece and 116 in South Africa.
/ Bikok si tiaucha miatoann e te-1-mia, pengkin chit-ni 124-kai, kohlai si Greece 117-kai, South Africa 116-kai. Japanese were the least enthusiastic with an average of 36 times a year, while Hong Kong people ranked second from the bottom with 63 sessions.
/ Jitpunlang siong bo simchiann, chit-ni pengkin 36-kai, Hiangkang lang si boeliu te-2, 63-kai. "Signs suggest sexual desires have dropped while the economy continued to lose momentum," Gynecologist C. Jay Jeng of The Cathay General Hospital told AFP.
/ "Khoann-khilai kahna kengche lu bai, lang lu boai cho3ai3" Kokthai Chonghap I-inn Hukho isu C. Jay Jeng ka AFP anne kong. "Hit hardest were the unemployed," said Jeng, also president of the non-profit Taiwan Association for Sexuality Education.
/ "Sitgiap e lang eng2hiong2 siong toa7," Jeng anne kong, i ma si hui-engli-e Taioan Seng3 Kau-iok Hiap-hoe e lisutiunn. Taiwan's jobless rate hit a record of 5.33 percent in October due to mounting business closures and downsizing amid the global slowdown, officials said.
/ Inui khigiap ti choankiu siautiau tiong koainntiam asi soksio2, 10-goeh Taioan e sitgiap-lut kau3 5.33 e kilok, koann-oan anne kong. About 527,000 people were out of work inOctober â a rise of 8,000 from a month ago.
/ Ti 10-goeh iak 527,000 lang bothaulou -- pi 1-kogoeh cheng ke 8,000 lang. Taiwan's economy has slipped into a technical recession with the government announcing earlier this month that the island's gross domestic product (GDP) had shrunk for a second successive quarter.
/ Taioan e kengche ikeng lakkau3 kisuttek e siautiau, goeh-chhe chenghu soanpou Taioan e choankok sengsan mogiah (GDP, gross domestic product) ikeng te-2-kai liam5-kui3 kiam2chio2. Officials said the worse-than expected 4.21 percent contraction in GDP for the three months to September represents the country's biggest quarterly fall in 26 years.
/ Koann-oan kong, kau 9-goeh chit-kui3 3-kogoeh e GDP soksio 4.21 percent, pi an3-sng3-e kohkhah bai, si Taioan 26-ni lai siong toa3 e kuichiattek e to3lak.