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Friday, September 16, 2005

Who's Doing What To Whom and How Often?

I'm posting this late on Friday in the hopes of avoiding problems for people at work.

A new report on the sexual behavior of people in the US was recently released. They decided to highlight things like (my bold)

In response to a question that asked, “Do you think of yourself as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or something else?” 90 percent of men 18-44 years of age responded that they think of themselves as heterosexual, 2.3 percent of men answered homosexual, 1.8 percent bisexual, 3.9 percent “something else,” and 1.8 percent did not answer the question (figure 8). Percents for women were similar.
Aside from this question, I wasn't too thrilled with what they considered "highlights". After reading through the report myself, I'd like to point out what I consider the highlights:

Virginity vs. Education
There is a small correlation between men who have had no sexual contact with women and education level. The percent of men (age 15-44) without high school diploma or GED who have had no sexual contact with women is 3.1%. Same for men with GED or high school diploma. It rises slightly to 3.3% for those with some college but not bachelor's degree. It tops out at 3.9% for those with a bachelor's or higher.
For women (15-44), the percent who have had no sexual contact with a man was: 1.7% for those with no high school diploma or GED, 1.0% for those with high school diploma or GED, 1.9% for those with some college but no bachelor's and 3.5% for those with a bachelor's or higher.

So, generally, more education -> less likely to have sexual contact with opposite sex. Interestingly, (see Table 9 in the report) more education somewhat correlates with a higher percentage of people having had same-sex sexual contact.

Race vs. Oral
The percentage of men (15-24) giving or receiving oral sex to/from a woman varies quite widely by race.

...........Giving Receiving
Hispanic:...53%.....63%
White:......61%.....68%
Black:......38%.....68%

Notice that more men are receiving than performing.

For women, age 15-24, giving or receiving oral sex to/from a man, the numbers look like this:

..........Giving Receiving
Hispanic:...50%.....55%
White:......68%.....70%
Black:......42%.....66%

There is a strong correlation between men and women here which could be due to cultural, religious, etc. factors.
I will also note (without showing the numbers) that although a larger percentage of Whites have participated in oral sex, their numbers are lower than Blacks and Hispanics for vaginal sex. Also, a larger percentage of White women (again still age 15-24) have had anal sex than Blacks or Hispanics while the numbers for White men are lower.

Attraction vs. Orientation
I don't underestand this one at all. Nearly 28% of men who identified themselves as bisexual indicated that they were only attracted to females. I will add that less than 6% of women who said they were bisexual indicated they were only attracted to males.

How It's Worded
And lastly (is anyone still reading this?) there was this explanation of how the wording of a question differed between different ways of administering.

Interviewer version:
‘‘At any time in your life, have you ever had sexual intercourse with a man, that is, made love, had sex, or gone all the way? [...] Do not count oral sex, anal sex, heavy petting, or other forms of sexual activity that do not involve vaginal penetration. Do not count sex with a female partner.’’
Self administered version:
‘‘Has a male ever put his penis in your vagina (also known as vaginal intercourse)?’’
South Park Version:
"Has a man ever put his hoo-hoo dilly in your cha-cha?"
OK, I made that last part up.

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