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.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 // The Statement
4B
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
5B
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.