High School Sex Research
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A researcher recently published this interesting visual relationship of the sexual connections between high schoolers at an unnamed school.
The three interesting things I noticed:
- Wow, some dude boned nine chicks and some girl slept with six guys.
- There is exactly one homosexual coupling (a pink-pink in that middle shape on the top row [and there's also a blue-blue near the right end of that big ring]). Either gays in the midwest are too far in the closet to act on their wishes or admit it to researchers, or gay sex didn't "count" and that one girl-girl hookup is a typo. Then again, it's still a mystery to me where two women would draw the line between fucking and just having oral sex, and the researchers wanted to sidestep this unscientific distinction.
- The big ring in the top-left seems a bit too perfect. Even the researchers call this 37-degrees-of-separation linkage a surprising anomaly.
update There is indeed one blue-blue. Good catch, Mike.
<blockquote>(a pink-pink in that middle shape on the top row).</blockquote>
There's also a blue common with those two pinks. Possibly it was a three-way?
(And if so...kudos to you, Mr. Blue Guy.)
Posted by: james on January 29, 2005 11:47 PM | permalinkSeems to me that this only prooves that guys are no more slutty than girls...
Posted by: Kearns on January 30, 2005 9:30 AM | permalinkOk, how was this done? Was this by people agreeing that they had been with each other, or just an anonymous survey? I know exactly how the anonymous surveys at my high school were filled out by some of us...
Posted by: O'dell on January 30, 2005 1:28 PM | permalinkDammit, what the hell was I doing in high school? Why didn't I know any of these slutty people?
Posted by: ChuckJerry on January 30, 2005 7:04 PM | permalinkAccording to the article I read in Time, the report and graph, which is from data collected in 1995, was done through anonymous computer survey responses sent in from home, so the researchers believe the kids had no incentive to lie.
I very much doubt that. Even if no one would know the results, I'm sure if I were surveyed in high school about my sexual relations, I'd have juiced the number of people I'd been with, just from my own ego's sake.
Posted by: Danny G on February 4, 2005 10:02 AM | permalinkNo more comments! Either someone has violated Godwin's Law, I'm tired of the discussion or, most likely, the ten-week window has closed. You can, however, contact me through email.