Disclaimer: I did a very nonscientific survey last year (April 2009) concerning sexual activity at Brown for the AMCV class Sex Acts: The Cultural Logistics of Intimacy in America. The BDH’s ‘how many sexual partners have you had this past year’ wasn’t really cutting it for me .. what is a sexual partner? Why was the NYTimes bemoaning this ‘hookup culture’ when it seemed that everyone I knew was either married off or complaining of the lack of sex? So I wrote a survey with a lot of questions, and to thank everyone who took the time to fill these out, I am posting the results here. I will try to explain why I asked certain questions, but will leave most of the analysis I wrote for the final paper out. (Feel free to email sexatbrown @ gmail.com with any questions / comments / complaints.) There are tons of problems which I will touch on concerning accuracy. I have never taken a stats class, and I post these results because about 3.5 people have asked to see them, and not to try and prove anything.

I. The Survey Itself : PDF

II. The Basics : Class year, “gender” breakdown, respondents in relationships versus those not in relationships

III. Sexual activity – Number of partners kissed to sexed

IV. The Orgasm Gap : as first (?) categorized by Paula England – how many girls have them, how many guys have them, and how many people have no idea what is going on

V. Religion : and how it affects (and doesn’t affect) sexual activity

VI. Relationships : how they started, what’s going on, and where they’re heading

VII. The Single Ladies, and Gentlemen : The more traditional ‘hookup culture’ – what is, and isn’t, [reported to be] going on

VIII. Ethnicity : How it affects sexual activity

IX. Attitudes / Behavior concerning Sexuality : Everything from first encounters with premarital sex to love to marriage

X. Income and age of first sexual intercourse

XI. Porn! : How we went from porn depicting sex to sex depicting porn

XII. Comments - the fun little gems left by all of you lovely participants