Most Americans Have Had Premarital Sex (Study Says 95%)

[David Zephyr]

Most Americans Have Had Premarital Sex

By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer

NEW YORK - 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.

Full Story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061219/ap_on_re_us/premarital_sex

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YEAH, AND THE OTHER 5% ARE ALL LIARS.

[mike_c]

1. yeah, but how many have post-marital sex....

I mean, really.

[Xipe Totec]

5. Your point, sadly

is on the mark. :cry:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Oh, my Gawd!

People screw! How about that...?

[NVMojo]

3. I heard this story on the radio today on the way home and almost laughed

my ass off! Nothing like the MSM's breaking news of the day! They need to tell us something we don't all know for a change!

[truthisfreedom]

4. More revealing information about bushco's fairyland approach to fucking with people.

They use guilt and paternalism to control us.

[LynnTheDem]

6. So much for bush's "abstinence" program.

:rofl:

[mcctatas]

7. Either the fundies have lied about thier numbers...

or thier sex life!;)

[whistle]

8. Isn't that an all time low for liars?

[uppityperson]

9. If someone has been married twice, and had sex with both premaritally...

do they count twice?

[ckramer]

10. I don't believe it - why? because it's not a scientific result

"99 percent of the respondents had had sex by age 44, and 95 percent had done so before marriage."


And the samples are --> "38,000 people — about 33,000 of them women "

As long as the samples are not picked randomly, it's pure bullshit.

[Benhurst]

11. "99 percent of the respondents had had sex by age 44 ... ."

I should hope so!

:rofl:

[daleo]

12. If you never get married, is it still pre-marital sex?

Just one of those zen questions, I guess.

[onehandle]

13. Another case of idiot Conservatives not trusting data.

However, Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America, a conservative group which strongly supports abstinence-only education, said she was skeptical of the findings.

"Any time I see numbers that high, I'm a little suspicious," she said. "The numbers are too pat."


Idiot.

[customerserviceguy]

17. Another case

of ass-head insertion. I'm sure this crazy fundie has never had anyone admit to her that they had premarital, but surely, a few have indeed done it.

[MarianJack]

14. AND NOW THIS JUST IN ON fox NEWS!!!

Most teens whack off, too! It must be the Democrat's fault! Back to you, brit!

[all.of.me]

15. decades?!

how about 'centuries'?

whoever needed a reality check is beyond naive. this is the funniest thing i have read in ages. it should be in the lounge.

[toopers]

16. I haven't . . .

only because I do not plan on getting married!

[Tyo]

18. My partner and I have premarital sex all the time

The only other option is to stop having sex altogher, which I guess from the Fundie standpoint wouldn't be a bad thing but we are not really on board with that idea.

[erpowers]

19. Believed for Years

This is pretty much what I have believed for years, especially about women. I have always thought that women loved sex and having sex as much as men do.

[bamacrat]

20. Well I hope everyone realizes that this is proof that abstinence only works.

Oh wait, its exactly the opposite. haha oh well. I wonder what the average age for losing ones virginity is? And once sexually active are there groups of people who are more likely to have sex. I need to know who wants to have fun when I go out.

[Joe Bacon]

21. I bet 100% of TV Preachers have had it.

:evilgrin:

[Kablooie]

22. Who are the sad people in the 1 out of 10 part of the study?

Mainly computer programmers no doubt.

[ckramer]

23. The sad part of the story is - the men are so poor they can't afford to

marry their women!

So they just have sex instead!

[damntexdem]

24. Hmm, 95%, huh?

Is that higher than the percentage that have had postmarital sex? ;-)

[varun]

25. 95% admit it, the rest 5% are...

...lying

[Infinite Hope]

26. I would guess in a scientific poll, more than 5% wait until they're married.

Especially in my generation. Many are into sex, obviously. But there's a sizable fraction that are stubbornly virgin. I respect them.

[VegasWolf]

27. Therefore, premarital sex is normal human behavior! The 5% are abnormal,

probably sexually repressed by religious zealot parents.

[VegasWolf]

28. Does gay sex count as premarital sex? nt

[Marr]

29. Well I haven't had nearly enough.

And I refuse to get married until I've met my self-imposed quota.