None

1 or 2 per month

1 or 2 per week

3 to 4 per week

5 to 6 per week

7+ per week

Freshman

Sophomore

Junior

Senior

0
20
40
60
80
100 %

How often do students have sex?

55%

of students 
have used 
dating apps

THE SEX SURVEY

FRESHMAN 

1

FRESHMAN 
51%

SENIOR

3

Design by Willa Hua and Casey Tin | Analysis by Robert Lesser, Parth Dhyani, Alice Liu

This year, 1449 undergraduate students took The Statement’s 
annual sex survey. 41.9% percent of respondents identified as 
male, 56.5% percent identified as female, and 1.5% percent 
identified as non-binary. Check out the results below!

* These numbers represent medians.

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Most Commonly Used Birth Control Methods

IUD
Withdrawal
Abstinence
Condoms

73.2%

Pills

50.6%
16.3%
15.7%
15.8%

Number of Sexual Partners

Have you had overall positive 
sexual experiences?

sexual experiences in college

talking about sex in college

SENIOR
70%

Casual Browsing

Relationship

Hooking Up

Other

0
20
40
60
80
100

Straight Females

Straight Males

Queer

%

What Students Use Hookup Apps for:

Straight males are more likely to be looking for a relationship or for a hookup than straight females. 

-20
0
20
40
60
80
%

Female

Male

Strongly disagree
Strongly agree

 
“I feel comfortable openly discussing sexual 
topics with my friends. ”

Females feel more comfortable talking about sex with friends than 

males. Significantly more females answered strongly agree (37%) or 

agree (46.6%) than male (30.4% and 39.4% respectively). 

~

Wednesday, December 5, 2018 // The Statement
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0

20

40

60

80

100

Hookup

Penetration
Oral Sex
Other Genital 
Contact

Heavy 
Petting

Making out

Sex

What is considered sex? What are hookups?

Most consider sex as penetration and oral sex, while definitions of 

hookups vary.

internet & sex

safe sex

0

20

40

60

80

Straight Male

Straight Female

Queer

Internet
Friends
Other

Where did people learn the most about sex?

Overall, people learned the most about sex from the internet. Significantly more 

females (34.2%) than males (18.9%) learned from friends, and significantly more 

males (66.7%) than females (53.1%) from the internet.

