> Age had a strong effect on sexual frequency: Americans in their 20s had sex an average of about 80 times per year...
This seems too low to be true. Only three times per fortnight?
This seems too low to be true. Only three times per fortnight?
There are probably also legions of 20-something Americans out there that simply have no prospects for sex on a regular basis.
Could this be more or less true in rural areas than urban? I have no idea. We just don't talk about it enough.
This is one reason why advocate visualizing the whole distribution into a some kind of graph whenever possible.
I have institutional access, and unfortunately, the paper does not describe this distribution. Fortunately, GSS data is publicly available: http://www.gss.norc.org/
edit. Outside the year 2012, when the questionnaire logic was slightly different, the mode of the distribution of 6 available categories ranging from "not at all" to "more than 3 times a week", has been almost always been "not at all". (With second peak around "2 or 3 times a week".)
Sounds about right.