Most Americans Have Had Premarital Sex

A new study is out that charts the abstinence rates of people over time. It has some eye opening numbers.
The study, examining how sexual behavior before marriage has changed over time, was based on interviews conducted with more than 38,000 people - about 33,000 of them women - in 1982, 1988, 1995 and 2002 for the federal National Survey of Family Growth. According to Finer’s analysis, 99 percent of the respondents had had sex by age 44, and 95 percent had done so before marriage.

Even among a subgroup of those who abstained from sex until at least age 20, four-fifths had had premarital sex by age 44, the study found.
This flies in the face of ‘abstinence only’ sex-ed advocates. The inference here is that only 4% of people aged 44 had waited until marriage to have sex. What is especially telling is the second paragraph. Those people who waited until at least 20 to have sex, still had sex before marriage in large numbers.
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