Typical urban-dwellers spend much of their adult lives unmarried

[varun]

This research should give those "family values" crowd the jitters... :evilgrin:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/01/09/urban.coupling.ap/index.html

Survey reveals real-life sex and the city
Friday, January 9, 2004 Posted: 2:13 PM EST (1913 GMT)

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- You could call it a real-life glimpse at sex and the city.

A new survey from the University of Chicago found that typical urban-dwellers spend much of their adult lives unmarried -- either dating or single. And that has led to an elaborate network of "markets" in which these adults search for companionship and sex.

"On average, half your life is going to be in this single and dating state, and this is a big change from the 1950s," says Edward Laumann, the project's lead author and an expert in the sociology of sexuality.

The results, released Thursday, are part of the Chicago Health and Social Life Survey to be published this spring in the book "The Sexual Organization of the City."

Laumann and his staff at the university examined how race and sexual orientation play a role in forming relationships, and how multiple sexual partners and jealousy also work into the equation.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Not all singles are models for Sex and The City. "Loners" have a

respectable demographic, i.e, those of us who enjoy the company and companionship of a significant other but prefer to live alone.

[Skittles]

3. I found Sex and The City apalling

what a bunch of skanks

[KissMyAsscroft]

2. It is getting less and less realistic...

to live with someone with the fighting and the divorce and the stress...

And think that their view is "All of the good stuff, without the bad..."