With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, it’s always worth doing a bit of research to maximise your chances of love romance sex. So this mash-up of answers from 34,260 OkCupid clients ticks enough boxes to fill our Bloody Stupid Survey O’ The Week slot.

So no matter their gender or orientation, beer-lovers are 60% more likely to be okay with sleeping with someone they’ve just met.

Sadly, this is the only question with a meaningful correlation for women. For men there are a few others:

Predictive question of first-date sex, and the implied odds of success


Q: In a certain light, wouldn’t nuclear war be exciting? ‘yes’⇒83%
Q: Assuming you were in the position to do so, would you launch nuclear weapons under any circumstances? ‘yes’⇒82%
Q: Could you imagine yourself killing someone? ‘yes’⇒82%


So there we go. And if any of this works for you on a first date…you read it here first and there was no charge. If it doesn’t? Meh.