Does more education lead to less sex?
Trying to make sense of the sexual “degree divide” in America
UNIVERSITY LIFE in America is often portrayed as an alcohol-fuelled, sexual free-for-all. In “The Sex Lives of College Girls”, a TV show created by Mindy Kaling, a comedian, which just concluded its third season, sexual escapades are as common as beer kegs. In reality, however, the sex lives of American university students are surprisingly tame. In 2024 one in five seniors at Harvard revealed to the Crimson, a student newspaper, that they had never had sex.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “The old college try”
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