Student sex: not all drunken escapades and one-night stands
The latest annual student sex survey is out – revealing number of partners, one-night stands and sexual worries
How much casual sex are students really having? The latest student sex survey suggests maybe not as much as popular culture would have you believe.
The anonymous survey of over 5,800 UK university students, carried out byHexjam in May 2015, quizzed them on everything from number of sexual partners, to favourite positions, and attitudes towards sex education in school.
Almost a third (30%) have had only one sexual partner at university, and more than half (55%) have had three sexual partners or fewer. Just 3% claim to have had more than 25 sexual partners at university.
Rich Cooper, acting editor of Hexjam, says: “The idea that students are more monogamous than we think really hammers home the notion that we shouldn’t pigeonhole students to particular stereotypes.”
Student respondants also said that they are worried about their sexual performance and unhappy with the sex education they received in school – though most said they were still happy with their sex life.
Here’s what they said:
Lost virginity
Fewer than one in 10 (9%) said they were virgins, and of those who have had sex, 25% lost their virginity while they were at university. When asked how often they have sex on average, 35% said they have it once or twice a week and 31% said they currently aren’t having any. Just 6% claimed to do so every day of the week.
One-night stands
The survey found that 40% of students have never had a one-night stand. Nearly half of respondents (48%) are in a relationship, and 54% of these relationships have lasted longer than a year.
Sexual worries
The most common sexual worry for university students is personal performance during sex, coming above accidental pregnancy and contracting a sexuallytransmitted diseaseMany students are concerned about how they look, citing “body image”, “body insecurities” and “looking fat” as concerns. Others fear embarrassing themselves by accidentally farting: “it’s yet to happen, but the fear is real,” wrote one student.
Respondents worry about being overheard during the act. After one particularly passionate session in which she “couldn’t contain [her] moans and screams,” one student said she was mortified to find more than 10 people downstairs had overheard the whole thing. “I kinda ruined their Netflix night,” she said. “[I’ve] never felt so embarrassed in my life!”
Sex education
Well over half (64%) of respondents said they wished that they had had better sex education at school, a rise of 16% since 2011.
Embarrassing sex stories
Students shared stories of sexual encounters that went wrong. One confessed: “I was once so drunk I threw up on a guy during sex”, another said: “I was so drunk I had to stop half-way through” and a third admitted they had fallen off the bed during sex more times than they liked to think about.
Favourite positions
“Doggy” knocks “her on top” – last year’s favourite – off the top spot as the most popular position this year, with 29% opting for it. “Her on top” comes in second place (26%) and missionary in favorite.
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