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Sex in America

by Edward Laumann, Robert T. Michael, Gina Kolata · first published 1995

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  • Animats · Jun 26, 2016 · Recommends

    "Sex in America, the Definitive Study" is perhaps more useful.[1] This was done in the 1990s. They selected about 3000 people in the US at random, using proper random selection techniques. Each person was both surveyed…

    on “Casual Sex: Everyone Is Doing It?” ↗
  • torstenvl · May 5, 2018 · Mentions

    …about income equality and tax structure). Effective fertility rate in particular is also radically different. As the author of the OP article points out, Japanese youth are delaying relationships and sex. In America, however, as in most other industrialized countries, the declining birthrate is mostly attributable to birth control, not abstinence.

    on “The United States of Japan” ↗

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