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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