Do Black People Have Better Sex Than Me? Okay. How About Whites in General?

Many of my black friends over the years have professed the sincere belief that white people have an objectively less powerful sex drive than black people. They told me that black people wanted sex more often and enjoyed it more than white people and that this was a scientific, biological fact of nature not subject to meaningful dispute. I certainly can't argue from my own experience since my own sex drive is all that I have to go on, but I am generally skeptical about these kinds of racialist claims.

I might buy an argument to the effect that my black friends had a less repressed attitude about sexuality than I did and that this permitted them to celebrate it more than someone who was raised, as I was, to believe that all sex was evil and dirty and certainly not to be enjoyed. I still had a pretty good sex drive in my younger days despite this propaganda, although I never enjoyed sex as much as I might have if I hadn't been emotionally scarred by those damned sex hating Baptists. Even today in the sanctity of the marriage bed, orgasm is accompanied by a profound sense of self loathing and shame. I have to tell you that this cramps my style more than a little bit. It has nothing to do with being white, though.

Anyway, I have always had to take my black friends' word for it when they talked about their sex drives. I've had white friends who seemed to be major horndogs, too, though, to hear them talk and to see how much effort they put into chasing tail. I have never had a discussion with a woman, black or white, about this issue, so they may have another take on it altogether. I suspect that the putative racial differences in horndoggedness are, to the extent that they even exist, actually cultural.

I would be interested in what people might have to say about this. If it is true that black people have more and better sex and that there is a physiological basis for this, then we should try to figure out a way to bottle whatever it is that gives them this characteristic and distribute it to non-blacks. If there is a difference with a non-physiological basis, then understanding it might be used to inform ways to treat culturally induced sexual repression. If there isn't really a difference, then I'd like my friends to shut up about their sex drives.

Is there any chance of getting a grant to study this issue? If the methodology involves a penile plethysmograph, count me out.