New research has revealed Spanish attitudes to sex, with almost three quarters (73.3 percent) of Spaniards claiming they are ‘very’ or ‘quite satisfied’ with their sex life in 2025.
This is according to recent survey data from Spain’s Centre for Sociological Research (CIS) that took a sample of 3,856 interviews and produced a series of headline findings that lay bare how Spaniards think about sex.
Breaking down the sexual satisfaction numbers: 30.5 percent said they are ‘very satisfied’ with their sex life; 42.8 percent said they are ‘quite satisfied’; while around a fifth of respondents (21.1 percent) reported being ‘not very satisfied or not satisfied at all’.
Four percent of respondents said they have no sex life at the moment, while over three quarters of people (76.9 percent) considered sex important for a satisfying life.
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Sexuality
In terms of sexuality, Spaniards still generally identify as heterosexual. 85.4 percent said they were heterosexual, 5.9 percent bisexual, and 2.8 percent that they are homosexual.
However, some 62.6 percent of respondents said they believed people can change their sexual preferences throughout their lives, and just over a third (35 percent) still considered ‘real sex’ to be penetration exclusively.
Interestingly, the report also found that half of young people between the ages of 18 and 24 (49.6 percent) don’t think having a partner has a significant impact on their well-being.
A very strong majority (84.9 percent) of those surveyed ‘strongly agree or quite agree’ with the idea that, in a sexual relationship, anything goes as long as all those involved give their full consent.
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Infidelity
However, almost two-third of Spaniards (64.5 percent) consider “having sexually explicit conversations via text messages, phone or social media” to be cheating.
58.1 percent of men surveyed and 70.6 percent of women thought this way. By age, the highest percentage to agree with the online infidelity statement was among young people aged between 18 and 24 years old (83.5 percent) while the lowest was among those over 65 (52.3 percent)
There was near total consensus that “having sexual and emotional relations with another person” is considered unfaithful for 91.5 percent of respondents.
For 76.3 percent, ‘having sex’ through social networks without face-to-face contact is also considered infidelity, while the idea of ‘kissing another person on the lips’ is more nuanced and split the respondents because for 53 percent it was considered unfaithful, but for 42.9 percent it was not.
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Sexual partners and experience
In terms of experience and sexual partners, of those surveyed, around a quarter (23.3 percent) said they had slept with between 5 and 10 people; 22.5 percent said they had only slept with one person and 12.3 percent with between 11 and 20 people.
Around 1 in 10 people (9.6 percent) said they had slept with between 21 and 100 people.
However, as one Spanish commentator has noted, studies like this CIS sexual attitudes survey rely on respondents telling the truth — something that isn’t exactly guaranteed.
Comparing the polling to political polls, Alfonso Arús asked: “If people lie when asked who they are going to vote for, aren’t they going to lie about sex?”
“When people are surveyed they tend to lie and I don’t know anyone who would say ‘my sex life is a failure’” Arús added.
Nonetheless, the data is still useful for giving us some broad insight into how Spaniards think about sex in 2025.
