Can Sex Be Quantified Scientifically?

3 March 2007

An extraordinary study has been made in order to capture as comprehensively as possible the sexual behavior around the Globe. This research tried to determine when the people begin their sexual activity, how many sex partners they have, and if they have protected sex. But the results are a bit frightening.

In an epoch in which there are tons of scary stories about pedophilia and promiscuity, there haven’t been registered any universal tendencies towards premature sexual relations. Another sensational discovery states the fact that the developed countries report higher rates of the multiple partners, and not those African countries in which AIDS is prevalent. The conclusion that was logically drawn from that is that the social factors, such as poverty or the sex equality have a higher importance in the balance between the illness and the health from a sexual viewpoint than promiscuity.

The scientific data states that monogamy is the dominating model in most regions of the world. Despite the substantial regional variations in the prevalence of the multiple partners that is considerably higher in the industrialized countries, most people declared that they had had only one partner lately. Men reported more partners than the women, but in the developed countries, the proportion between men and women that reported multiple partners is more or less equal.

In most cases, the age of the first sexual intercourse was higher for women. When the tendency to get married at a more mature age rose, there appeared a higher degree of the pre-marital sex.

But these statistics, although they have a strong scientific background, are highly generalized since the discrepancies between counties and cultures are extremely accentuated. Not even science can determine an exact percentage of those who are monogamous or the average age at which one has began his/her sexual activity.

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