Women As Keen As Men for Group Sex

Reasons cited by the comparatively small number of regretful participants include judgment impaired by alcohol, jealousy between partners and being pressured into it.

RedHotPie.com.au relationship expert Geoff Barker said the survey suggested Australian women were more sexually liberated than men.

"I thought you would find it skewed towards guys, but the reality is women are pursuing group sex just as much," he told AAP.

"Women don't feel judged or watched by society the way Australian men are feeling.

"Women's sexuality is encouraged by the media and the men folk.

"Men tend to be a little bit more shy in the sex department."

He said stories from the rugby league world had given group sex a bad press.

"This kind of thing has been going on since Adam and Eve," he said.

"It's not going to stop purely and simply because society says it's good or bad.

"Consent is a massive part of this. When you tar an activity with a brush like this, and you make it out to be this terrible thing, all you are doing is pushing it underground and making people feel less comfortable.

"Life is short. You should be able to experience as much as you like as long as you are not hurting other people."

Barker said group sex was more widespread than many people thought, yet most participants felt it was no one else's business but their own.

"So the reality is the person you are sitting next to at work could be up to all sorts of interesting fun and games, and you would never know about it," he said.

"A survey like this opens people's eyes.

"If you participate in group sex, you might feel like you are a little bit out on your own, but the truth is you are not.

"The secretary at work or the guy on the building site might say, 'You know what? I don't feel dirty about this any more, or weird or strange, and I could even talk to my partner about this now'."