Today's "No Shit" moment
Today's "No Shit" moment, or "well duh", if you prefer, is brought to you by the wonderful people at CNN, who I believe form the core of Team Obvious:
95 percent of Americans had premarital sex
Gasp! What a shocker there (no pun intended).
Armed with this new information, which you pretty much knew already, you may now resume with your lives.
95 percent of Americans had premarital sex
Gasp! What a shocker there (no pun intended).
Armed with this new information, which you pretty much knew already, you may now resume with your lives.
4 Comments:
well man, this is the only way you will get to be in a minority group. Enjoy!
a) I'm actually quite surprised the number is that high. While I knew I was in the minority, I would've thought I was among at least 10%...not 5%.
b) Reading a bit about the study, I'm a little skeptical of it. They had a sample of, like, 38,000 people....33,000 of whom were women. Now I'm not saying women are more likely to have premarital sex than men....but that hardly seems like a representative sample. Makes me wonder what else is skewed in that study.
As I mentioned to Meat Boy on the phone last night, I'm actually skeptical about a lot of things in the study. That the study primarily focused on women doesn't particularly bother me, as it appears its primary aim was to dispel gender stereotypes particularly with the older generation. However, I am more curious about the nature of the premarital sex that was going on. For example, how many only had sex with one person out of wedlock but still eventually married that person? (I can think of a few people that fall into that category - and that would make you feel much less like the Lone Ranger.) In addition, how many people only had sex in the context of long-term relationships? How many people have had 5 or fewer partners, which is a fairly paltry sum all things considered?
In general, I imagine that a more fleshed-out study would reveal that there are basically two kinds of people: those who, while not necessarily waiting until marriage, only have sex in serious, monogamous relationships; and the "players". Of course, as Tom Robbins said, there are two kinds of people: those who think there are only two kinds of people, and those who know better.
Regardless, if this study helps in any small way put a kibosh on abstinence-only education, more power to it.
Also, the study was done in New York... would the University of Utah come up with different results?
I wonder if anyone has done a study on teenage sex, pregnancy, and disease rates in school districts that have abstinence-only sex ed programs as opposed to those that have comprehensive programs. I have my hypothesis (comprehensive = slightly more of the former, less of the latter two), but such a study would be valuable to the debate on sex education...
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