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To: garbanzo
People always keeps saying this... let's see some figures, reliable surverys, etc. No one has ever asked me or any of my friends. How do they get these figures? At STD clinics? I know some people like to believe this. BUT even if - say - 10% of man/woman couples have performed anal "sex" it still doesn't make it normal or natural. And let's see some verification before anyone else makes statements that "everyone does it."
153 posted on 05/30/2003 9:08:28 PM PDT by First Amendment
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To: pram
No one has ever asked me or any of my friends.

The word for this is anecdotal evidence. It's typically not taken very seriously.

However, here are some studies I've found.

High-Risk Sexual Behavior at a Midwestern University: A Confirmatory Survey
According to a 1991 study of sexual behavior based on a random sample of heterosexual undergraduates at a Midwestern university, 80% of the males and 73% of the females had experienced vaginal or anal intercourse. The average age at first vaginal intercourse was 17.2 years for both sexes. Seventeen percent of the sexually experienced males and 18% of the sexually experienced females had engaged in heterosexual anal intercourse; among these respondents, the average age at first anal intercourse was 20.3 for males and 19.1 for females. Although less than four years, on average, had elapsed since the respondents had first had vaginal intercourse, males reported an average of 8.0 lifetime vaginal-sex partners and females reported an average of 6.1. Overall, the findings from this random sample of students are similar to those from a 1988 convenience sample of the same college population.

Unfortunately, there seem to be better more complete references, but they are not available online.

154 posted on 05/30/2003 11:48:16 PM PDT by garbanzo (Free people will set the course of history)
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