Posted on 12/19/2006 6:04:03 PM PST by doc30
NEW YORK (AP) -- More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past.
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Film at 11...
Although I am sure it is high, I doubt 95%.
One could cadge a research grant and do a study on the remaining 5%.
"Although I am sure it is high, I doubt 95%."
My thought exactly.
Born in the 40's? Baby boomers!
Of course they got rid of hubby and the kids, got the dog-chewed-on-it short haircut and moved to Santa Fe where they quit having sex but claim to be 'very sexual beings'....
I think that's why the number is at 95%. Still counts as pre-marital sex.
My wife would be one, so we are at 50%. She still thinks I'm great.
Yeah! The baby-boomers were chaste as the wind-driven snow!
Maybe my family is a bunch of freaks, but both my parents, my sister, and I all fit into that 5%.
I don't buy it. I know several friends who abstained, as well.
But I seriously doubt the number of parnters was as high for those born in the 1940s as they are today...
First or second marriage? Heh heh heh...
First marriages may see lower numbers of premarital sex, but the second and third could be skewing this considerably.
It's like the divorce rate. First marriage failure rates are a lot lower than the overall marriage failure rate.
Thats it...because of this PROOF we must never again even suggest virginity and purity to kids or anyone for that matter...its now a dead issue. Everybody try on the shoe before marriage now, after all 95% of us did so...just ask these folks.
<sarcasm/off
Not too long ago the homo's were trying to make you believe 10% of the US is gay, and that all females would soon have AIDS, cuz they were the fastest growing group.
Oh yeah, and McKinsey and his big survey...? They were taken using US PRISONERS as survey subjects....
I'm married, what is sex? :)
My second, her first. And you are right about the stats. I remember hearing Paul Harvey talking about the divorce rate. He said it was 50% or so. But he went on to say that with some people having 2, 3, 4, and some more marriages, the real stat is that 75% of marriages actually survive.
Figures lie and liars figure.
The study itself is at:
http://tinyurl.com/yxalr9
http://www.publichealthreports.org/userfiles/122_1/12_PHR122-1_73-78.pdf
Good for you!
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