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ponders weekend...
Jun. 23rd, 2007 02:31 amI have no plans, actually... most of my local friends are away at big gatherings... and the big task I'd held time for has fallen through.
Jun. 23rd, 2007
Yesterday the CDC released a survey taken in 1999-2002 regarding both drug use and sexual activity among US adults. It differed from earlier surveys in that it was done anonymously by respondents using a software client in private, rather than being interviewed in-person by a researcher. There are some findings that can't please the current administration or its religious-conservative political allies, which is probably why the study was released on a Friday afternoon. ;-)
Some of the findings are that 16% of adults first had sex before age 15, while 15% waited until after age 21. But the younger the age group, the lower the mean age at which they became sexually active... which implies that abstinence-education has been a failure, or there would have been an uptick in the 20-29 age groups. Other findings... the lifetime median number of sexual contacts among US adults is seven for men and four for women. And only ten percent of women and 17 percent of men had had two or more partners in the previous year. Fifteen or more lifetime contacts would put US women in the top (or bottom, depending on viewpoint ;) ten percent, while the same breakpoint for US men looks like it would be around 25...
Some of the findings are that 16% of adults first had sex before age 15, while 15% waited until after age 21. But the younger the age group, the lower the mean age at which they became sexually active... which implies that abstinence-education has been a failure, or there would have been an uptick in the 20-29 age groups. Other findings... the lifetime median number of sexual contacts among US adults is seven for men and four for women. And only ten percent of women and 17 percent of men had had two or more partners in the previous year. Fifteen or more lifetime contacts would put US women in the top (or bottom, depending on viewpoint ;) ten percent, while the same breakpoint for US men looks like it would be around 25...
