Yeah, use your best Richard Dawson voice for that. (if you don’t know who Richard is, go ask your parents, they might be my age)
Ahem.
I’m loving this little article, which of course will be plastered everywhere in the finest holiday tradition:
“The reality of the situation is that most people had premarital sex, and it’s been that way for several decades,” says Lawrence Finer, director of domestic research at the Guttmacher Institute, a New York City-based non-profit organization that studies reproductive and sexual health.
The study, which used statistics from the 1982, 1988, 1995 and 2002 National Survey of Family Growth, asked about 40,000 people ages 15-44 about their sexual behavior and traced the trends in premarital sex back to the 1950s.
Of those interviewed in 2002, 95% reported they had had premarital sex; 93% said they did so by age 30. Among women born in the 1940s, nearly nine in 10 did. At the same time, people are waiting longer to marry; 2005 data show median age at first marriage is just over 25 for women and 27 for men….
I’ve linked to the USA Today article about this study, but there were over 200 to pick from when I googled it this morning.
So… have any of you, dearest readers, ever engaged in such frivolity?
I’ll go first. I’ll proudly stand up and say yes, I had sex before I was married. Lots of times. And I enjoyed the hell out of it. Then, she and I were married, and continued having sex, and then we had a rough spot (sex? not so much), and now we’re back to having lots of sex again.
And our twentieth anniversary is coming up.
Now, your turn… :p
