Chewing, licking or sucking ice cream, preferring vanilla or pistachio, choosing your perfume out of habit or on impulse… JOYclub questioned its members about their summer preferences and their intimate lives. Surprising correlations emerge, although they must be interpreted with caution.
A simple ice cream… and hundreds of secrets
Summer has its little pleasures. A walk, a cone that melts in the sun, a perfume chosen almost mechanically. What if these gestures, which we believe to be innocuous, also told something about us?
This is the hypothesis, deliberately playful, explored by JOYclub, a European community dedicated to positive sexuality. Participants were asked to answer questions about their way of enjoying ice cream, but also about their kissing habits and their sexuality.
First observation: respondents like generous ice creams. Nearly one in two people say they need at least two scoops to be satisfied, almost two thirds prefer the cone to the cup and almost half enjoy their ice cream by licking it, far ahead of those who bite or suck it.
Munchers, lickers… profiles that are emerging
The most surprising result concerns the way of eating ice cream. People who say they kiss her are also the most impulsive when it comes to kissing.
Among them, 65.2% say they enjoy “intimate kissing” and 61.4% say they enjoy kissing with their tongue. More than a quarter (28%) also say they like biting kisses.
Lovers of licked ice, who constitute the largest group in the survey, display a profile more oriented towards sensuality: 59.2% prefer kissing with the tongue, 58.4% the intimate kiss and 55.3% kisses on the neck. As for respondents who prefer to suck or sip their ice cream, a little more than half (51.2%) say they also favor intimate kissing.
These results describe statistical associations observed in this population, without demonstrating that the way of eating ice cream influences romantic behavior.
Vanilla, chocolate, pistachio… when the clichés melt in the sun
The survey also attacks a well-established stereotype: that of “vanilla sexuality”, often used to describe conventional sexuality.
The responses collected, however, tell a different story. Among the people who chose vanilla, 51.8% say they take an active role during the kiss, compared to only 7.3% who say they let their partner lead the exchanges.
Same observation for chocolate and pistachio lovers. More than 58% also describe themselves as very active when kissing, while nearly one in four pistachio lovers say they enjoy “the rhythm and circular movements.”
The participants who choose their perfume “according to the mood of the moment” finally appear to be the most adventurous in the survey: more than seven out of ten say they enjoy cunnilingus, almost six out of ten fellatio and 44.2% say they like making love outdoors.
A fun mirror… but which does not replace science
Beyond its light-hearted aspect, this investigation questions the way in which certain everyday gestures can sometimes reflect deeper preferences. The authors of the survey see this as confirmation of observations made over several years in their community.
“This survey confirms what we were already observing empirically: our small daily habits, even the most innocuous, often say a lot about our way of loving and desiring. The correlation between the way of eating ice cream and kissing practices is a great example of the richness of this data.”declares Louiza Papadopoulou, international marketing manager of JOYclub.
This conclusion, however, needs to be qualified. The respondents all belong to the JOYclub community, composed mainly of men (76.3%), with an average age of 47.8 years and profiles particularly open to the diversity of sexual practices. The results cannot therefore be extrapolated to the entire French population.
Ultimately, this investigation perhaps tells less about what an ice cream reveals than the pleasure of playing with summer clichés. A reminder, too, that sexuality is never reduced to a greedy preference: it remains a deeply personal experience, shaped by each person’s history, encounters and desires.