Wednesday, December 7, 2022 // The Statement — 2
Here marks the clos-
ing chapter of a fall semes-
ter that, to many University
of Michigan students, was
characterized by a series
of Tinder hook-ups, bouts
of religious guilt, the oc-
casional trip to University
Health Services and a whole
lot of “doing it.” We here
at The Statement know this
because we asked, just as
we have done for the past
10 years.
Indeed, on this day in
2012, The Michigan Daily
debuted its first Sex Issue,
detailing “gay cruising”
on Craigslist and consum-
mates dressed as crayons.
Much has been done in the
past decade, and we have
had the pleasure of docu-
menting it all — the good,
the bad and the dirty.
So alas, welcome to
the 2022 Sex Edition
— or
as some may call it, the
“heated fellowship” edi-
tion.
In
November,
the
Statement and Web team
distributed a survey to all
51,225 University of Michi-
gan students on the Ann
Arbor campus, both un-
dergraduate and graduate.
Of those, we received 4,915
respondents — a sample
your STATS 250 professor
would approve of.
Demographic results
indicate that 18% of the re-
spondents were freshmen,
19%
sophomores,
19%
juniors, 20% seniors and
24% graduate students.
59% of respondents iden-
tify as being a woman, 36%
as men, 3% as non-binary,
1% as gender-queer and
1% as other. The distribu-
tion of respondents’ sexual
orientation was recorded
as 63% heterosexual, 18%
bisexual, 7% lesbian/gay,
5% queer, 3% asexual, 2%
pansexual and 2% other.
It is important to note
that statistics resulting from
this survey may be skewed,
as many individuals may
have withheld information
detailed in the question-
naire, refrained from an-
swering certain questions
and/or may have answered
questions dishonestly. We
also recognize the pres-
ence of survey bias in those
who chose to participate, as
some respondents are per-
haps more open to discuss-
ing sex-related topics or
are more prone to checking
The Michigan Daily emails
through which the survey
was distributed.
Additionally, we are
cognizant of, and made ap-
propriate adjustments to,
an omission error made
in a demographic ques-
tion inquiring about the
respondent’s college. Out
of the options offered, our
survey failed to include a
select few colleges, namely
SMTD and STAMPS. As a
result, there may be partial
error in results utilizing
college as a variable, as
such responses were sub-
ject to re-categorization
after the survey’s closure.
We also would like
to acknowledge the pres-
ence of heteronormative
phrasing present within se-
lect questions and answer
choices. In particular, we
recognize that the discus-
sion of contraception and
safe-sex practices may be
non-representative of cer-
tain sexual orientations,
particularly those who par-
take in non-heterosexual
sex and do not engage with
standard forms of contra-
ception.
We
apologize
for any harm we may have
caused with this discrep-
ancy and understand that
this lapse may have caused
a potential skew in data.
JULIA VERKLAN
MALONEY
Statement Deputy Editor
Read more at MichiganDaily.com
The Statement
2022 Sex Survey
Results
To be frank, it wouldn’t be a sex survey without a statistically significant amount of sex. The results are in: 62% of the campus population has had sex
this semester, a number that is seven percentage points shy of an innuendo (maybe next year!). But it is also a number that, when stripped down, reveals
broader truths surrounding students’ views, motivations, preferences and background of all things sex. So, to begin, let’s go back to basics: sex-ed.
Sex Education and Safe Sex Practices
A majority of student
respondents (30%) first
learned about sex through
the internet/social media,
followed by through friends
at 24%. Hence, our educa-
tion system still appears to
be lacking in terms of suf-
ficient sex-ed, as only 17%
of respondents first learned
about sex from school. And
regardless of when and how
respondents first learned
about sex, 40% perceive
their sex education as a
largely negative experience
that was both uninforma-
tive and unhelpful.
When asked about
how sex education could
be improved, many write-
in responses indicated the
need for outlined steps to
achieve female pleasure,
how to engage in queer sex,
clear definitions of con-
sent, ways to detect sexual
coercion and a comprehen-
sive list of the best safe-sex
practices.
Perhaps to make up
for such a lack of scho-
lastic instruction, some
University students have
expanded their sexual skill-
set through ‘experiential
learning’ outside of the
classroom. Specifically, the
survey finds that graduate
students studying within
the School of Social Work
are having the most sex
this semester, often seven
or more times a week. And
those within the College
of Engineering are pre-
sumptively doing too much
homework and the least
amount of dirty-work: 45%
report that they have not
had sex this semester, the
lowest rate of sex observed
across all of the colleges
represented in the survey.
Whether “doing it” a
little or a lot, the majority
of students use condoms
(‘male condoms’ or ‘female
condoms’) to ensure safe-
sex. Additionally, 38% of
students have used or are
currently using some form
of contraceptive, be it the
birth control pill, IUD,
implant, etc. Again, it is
important to note that the
survey questions surround-
ing contraception aligned
mostly with heterosexual
sex and consequentially did
not collect data on PrEP us-
ers, etc.
But for the 10% of
students who rely on with-
drawal and the 2% who do
not use any form of safe
sex practice, we here at the
Statement would like to
cordially invite you to ex-
plore University provided
resources to make certain
that you and your partner(s)
are having the safest of sex.
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