Lousy Canuck

This article is absolutely unfathomable. I’m trying to find some way to blame Bill Clinton and his “definition of ‘is’”, but it goes well beyond that. WELL beyond.

A new study from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University found that no uniform consensus existed when a representative sample of 18- to 96-year-olds was asked what the term meant to them.
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The study involved responses from 486 Indiana residents who took part in a telephone survey conducted by the Center for Survey Research at IU. Participants, mostly heterosexual, were asked, “Would you say you ‘had sex’ with someone if the most intimate behavior you engaged in was …,” followed by 14 behaviorally specific items. Here are some of the results:

* Responses did not differ significantly overall for men and women. The study involved 204 men and 282 women.
* 95 percent of respondents would consider penile-vaginal intercourse (PVI) having had sex, but this rate drops to 89 percent if there is no ejaculation.
* 81 percent considered penile-anal intercourse having had sex, with the rate dropping to 77 percent for men in the youngest age group (18-29), 50 percent for men in the oldest age group (65 and up) and 67 percent for women in the oldest age group.
* 71 percent and 73 percent considered oral contact with a partner’s genitals (OG), either performing or receiving, as having had sex.
* Men in the youngest and oldest age groups were less likely to answer “yes” compared with the middle two age groups for when they performed OG.
* Significantly fewer men in the oldest age group answered “yes” for PVI (77 percent).

The only explanation for people not considering penis-in-vagina to “count” as sex, that I can think of, is education. Without teaching people what counts as sexual intercourse, STD infections are probably most rampant in segments of the population where people aren’t properly informed.