To get a feel for nationwide trends in university gender, we partnered with SurveyMonkey to survey college students from diverse experiences at numerous four-year universities and colleges all over the country — from Harvard on the University of Minnesota to hillcrest State. A few caveats: The poll was created by reporters, perhaps not social experts. So on the debatable question of intimate attack, we quite bluntly expected participants if they’d been raped, many public-health surveys rather explain the act of pushed gender in a number of different ways and over a series of questions.

More people will say that they’ve experienced rape if you do not actually ask them to recognize as rape survivors, thus a lot fewer college students mentioned they are raped in our study than have in present national university scientific studies. (but a high portion of people within our review mentioned they know other students who have been sexually assaulted.) In addition, despite the greatest efforts getting a level gender split, a lot more females responded to the poll — as it happens that the difficulty to getting teenage boys to stay however for a study is actually a well-known problem.

There have been many things that curious us about the results: college or university ladies, as a bunch, have actually an important fear of intimate coercion; men, by comparison, extremely fear getting rejected — and therefore are more or less two times as scared of bad performance in bed as ladies are. Nevertheless the thing that intrigued us a lot of was that for all your narrative prominence of “hookup culture,” the students whom replied to your study were remarkably intimately conservative.

Analysis by Amelia Thomson-Deveaux

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How performed the college sexual life compare to that of the surveyed pupils?

1. Are you presently male or female?

   
   Male
   
   
   Feminine
   

2. Whenever did you lose the virginity?

   
   12-15
   
   
   15-18
   
   
   18-20
   
   
   20-23
   
   
   I’m a virgin
   

3. Something a hookup?

   
   Sex
   
   
   Oral intercourse
   
   
   Generating out
   
   
   Everything beyond kissing
   

4. If you are not a virgin, how often have you got intercourse?

   
   Daily
   
   
   A couple of times each week
   
   
   Many times monthly
   
   
   Several times per year
   
   
   Less than one time per year
   
   
   Some Other
   

5. Will you be having a lot more sex or much less gender than everyone?

   
   More
   
   
   Less
   

6. How long do you really believe you should know somebody when you make love with them?

   
   Less than a week
   
   
   1-2 months
   
   
   14 days to 30 days
   
   
   Longer than 30 days
   
   
   Various Other
   

7. What exactly is your own biggest concern when it comes to matchmaking and sex?

   
   Rejection
   
   
   Coercion
   
   
   Performance
   
   
   Different
   

8. If you aren’t a virgin, perhaps you have felt that a sexual partner crossed a line?

   
   Yes
   
   
   No
   

9. Ever held it’s place in love?

   
   Yes
   
   
   No
   

Your outcomes

in accordance with the surveyed pupils along with other nyc mag audience tend to be marked in

orange

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1.) whenever do you drop your virginity?

2.) Understanding a hookup?

3.) How many times have you got sex?

College Students



NY Mag readers

4.) Do you think you’re having a lot more intercourse or significantly less sex than friends?

5.) How long do you really believe you need to understand some one just before have sexual intercourse using them?

Students



NY Mag audience

6.) something the biggest worry when considering internet dating and intercourse?

Men



Females

7.) if you should be sexually productive, have you believed that a sexual companion entered a line?

8.) Have you held it’s place in love?

College Students



NY Mag readers

Student study replies

Intercourse

Almost 40 % of students we surveyed said they’re virgins. Nevertheless, people believed the rest of us had been having numerous sex.

Could you be sexually active?

Just how long do you believe you should know somebody if your wanting to make love using them?

Nonvirgins



Virgins

How can you discover gender lovers?

Through friends	53%
Class/dorms/extracurriculars	47percent
Different	34%
Bars/parties	21per cent
On Line	14%

Just how many sex partners you think you ought to have before matrimony?

Ladies



Guys

Threat

Not surprisingly, more ladies than males report that an intimate spouse has actually entered the range, but very nearly as many men as ladies learn anyone who has already been raped.

Do you use contraception?

86percent


Yes

↓

Condoms	49percent
Capsule	45%
Some Other	12per cent
IUD	8percent

Have you any ä°dea somebody who has already been raped?

Do you think the class does a job of dealing with rape revealing?

How much cash do you usually drink on a night out?

Freshman/Sophomore



Junior/Senior

Love

Connections commonly dead: 69 per cent of respondents mentioned they’ve had one that lasted more than a-year. And just about everyone intends to get married someday.

What’s the longest union you had?

Nonvirgins

4%

Not ever been in a relationship

Virgins

52per cent

Not ever been in a relationship

Precisely what does a “date” mean for your requirements?

Dinner	21%
Intercourse	1percent
Any one-on-one experience with passionate potential	71per cent
Additional	7per cent

Do you believe you will get hitched someday?

*This post appears within the October 19, 2015 issue of

Ny

Magazine.