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> Age had a strong effect on sexual frequency: Americans in their 20s had sex an average of about 80 times per year... This seems too low to be true. Only thre

by pdog 10y ago

> Age had a strong effect on sexual frequency: Americans in their 20s had sex an average of about 80 times per year... This seems too low to be true. Only three times per fortnight?

trey-jones 10y ago
Are you basing this comment on personal experience? If so, congratulations! As for me, a married man who had my first child at 26, I would say 80 times a year during my late twenties is probably close to accurate. Maybe slightly low. As for the sexual activity of my peers, I have no idea! Do you? There are probably also legions of 20-something Americans out there that simply have no prospects for sex on a regular basis. Could this be more or less true in rural areas than urban? I have no idea. We just don't talk about it enough.
return0 10y ago
sex distributions are not uniform. some people have lots of sex others very little.
metaphorm 10y ago
why do you think this is too low? Not everyone is in a committed partner relationship, and not every single person is involved in "hookup culture".
irixusr 10y ago
Well there's only 40~45 weeks in a year (if menstruation is no-sexy time) so then that's twice a week. Sounds about right.
mooseburger 10y ago
I haven't had sex in 28 years.
maus42 10y ago
1. Averages don't work that way. 2. Congratulations, you might not be as representative sample of the population as you thought! This is one reason why advocate visualizing the whole distribution into a some kind of graph whenever possible. I have institutional access, and unfortunately, the paper does not describe this distribution. Fortunately, GSS data is publicly available: http://www.gss.norc.org/ http://www.gss.norc.org/ edit. Outside the year 2012, when the questionnaire logic was slightly different, the mode of the distribution of 6 available categories ranging from "not at all" to "more than 3 times a week", has been almost always been "not at all". (With second peak around "2 or 3 times a week".)

by pdog 10y ago

> Age had a strong effect on sexual frequency: Americans in their 20s had sex an average of about 80 times per year... This seems too low to be true. Only three times per fortnight?

trey-jones 10y ago

Are you basing this comment on personal experience? If so, congratulations! As for me, a married man who had my first child at 26, I would say 80 times a year during my late twenties is probably close to accurate. Maybe slightly low. As for the sexual activity of my peers, I have no idea! Do you? There are probably also legions of 20-something Americans out there that simply have no prospects for sex on a regular basis. Could this be more or less true in rural areas than urban? I have no idea. We just don't talk about it enough.

return0 10y ago

sex distributions are not uniform. some people have lots of sex others very little.

metaphorm 10y ago

why do you think this is too low? Not everyone is in a committed partner relationship, and not every single person is involved in "hookup culture".

irixusr 10y ago

Well there's only 40~45 weeks in a year (if menstruation is no-sexy time) so then that's twice a week. Sounds about right.

mooseburger 10y ago

I haven't had sex in 28 years.

maus42 10y ago

1. Averages don't work that way. 2. Congratulations, you might not be as representative sample of the population as you thought! This is one reason why advocate visualizing the whole distribution into a some kind of graph whenever possible. I have institutional access, and unfortunately, the paper does not describe this distribution. Fortunately, GSS data is publicly available: http://www.gss.norc.org/ http://www.gss.norc.org/ edit. Outside the year 2012, when the questionnaire logic was slightly different, the mode of the distribution of 6 available categories ranging from "not at all" to "more than 3 times a week", has been almost always been "not at all". (With second peak around "2 or 3 times a week".)