Posted on 12/20/2006 8:04:33 AM PST by Froufrou
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.
"This is reality-check research," said the study's author, Lawrence Finer. "Premarital sex is normal behavior for the vast majority of Americans, and has been for decades."
Finer is a research director at the Guttmacher Institute, a private New York-based think tank that studies sexual and reproductive issues and which disagrees with government-funded programs that rely primarily on abstinence-only teachings. The study, released Tuesday, appears in the new issue of Public Health Reports.
The study, examining how sexual behavior before marriage has changed over time, was based on interviews conducted with more than 38,000 people about 33,000 of them women in 1982, 1988, 1995 and 2002 for the federal National Survey of Family Growth. According to Finer's analysis, 99 percent of the respondents had had sex by age 44, and 95 percent had done so before marriage.
Even among a subgroup of those who abstained from sex until at least age 20, four-fifths had had premarital sex by age 44, the study found.
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Honestly, I really don't want to know about my grandparents sex lives. It happend 5 times and that's all I ever want to know.
Searching for monogamy ping...
Finer is a research director at the Guttmacher Institute, a private New York-based think tank that studies sexual and reproductive issues and which disagrees with government-funded programs that rely primarily on abstinence-only teachings
Anti-Abstinence only think tank all this bearded guys sitting around thinking about sex all the time getting our tax money as grants.
I call major Bovine Excrement on this one.
~guffaw!~ I recall asking my parents about sex and getting a very scientific explanation which I found disgusting.
I was 5.
And we KNOW that men NEVER lie about sex!
I'm one of the grandparents you mentioned, and I didn't have sex until I was 22 years old.
Exactly; my grandmother is 88, grandfather 85, and both of my parents are 52. I don't want to know about stuff.
Great! I'm in the one out of ten and expect my children to be also. And they know this.
Were you married?
"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."
Oh please. The '40s was when alot of the HIPPIES were born. Big shock the FREE-"LOVE" "grandmas" were unchaste.
Tell me about the Roaring '20s, Flappers, and bathtub Gin, then with a straight face tell me why you still call this bovine excrement.
Would more than 9 out of 10 be 10?
in other words... 10 out of 10?
"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....."
And accordingly, the "need" for abortions arose....
For a long time, I thought premarital sex was the only sex there was, that once the (shotgun) wedding ritual was concluded, marital sex life ended altogether, and successive children were the result of the visiting milkman.
Then the home delivery of milk ended, and momma had to find a substitute outlet, and in desperation, turned to the guy who came home all hot and sweaty every night.
Thus was marital sex restored.
Would you buy a car without test driving it?
I think maybe that last person didn't go all the way.
;o)
LOL.
It's easy to sugarcoat the past....
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