Although I am sure it is high, I doubt 95%.
"Although I am sure it is high, I doubt 95%."
My thought exactly.
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.
It always seemed to me that this kind of "study" is as much a waste of time as it is meaningless. Who knows what the figure is? Who cares? We do or should know that many of the people answering the big question have one lying agenda or another.
Perhaps a worthy study might involve whether yes or no furthers the human condition. Even that would require an existential yard stick of meter length.
I literally don't know anyone who hasn't. Hell, that even includes grandparents. Wait... I didn't have premarital sex, with another person anyway :p.
I notice the story says "premarital". I suspect that many respondents had sex and then married their partners - - that would likely account for a healthy percentage of "premarital". Also, "premarital" infers that the poll was limited to people who eventually did get married - - and that would rule out a lot of present "Americans", including infants and children (of course), grotesque, obese, and sociopathic adults, along with homosexuals and the mentally disabled, among others (including people who simply never found a person to marry or didn't want marriage). The 95% figure is illusory and largely meaningless.