From the department of “We told you so!” comes a study about American sex. In a nutshell, everybody’s in the pool.
New York’s Guttmacher Institute confirmed what most of us know on December 19th, and completely disagrees with the Bush adminstrations well funded abstinence only programs.
Read the rest of this post »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.
Finer said the likelihood of Americans having sex before marriage has remained stable since the 1950s, though people now wait longer to get married and thus are sexually active as singles for extensive periods. — CNN