The study, examining how sexual behavior before marriage has changed over time, was based on interviews conducted with more than 38,000 people -- about 33,000 of them women -- in 1982, 1988, 1995 and 2002 for the federal National Survey of Family Growth. According to Finer's analysis, 99 percent of the respondents had had sex by age 44, and 95 percent had done so before marriage.
Even among a subgroup of those who abstained from sex until at least age 20, four-fifths had had premarital sex by age 44, the study found.
Finer said the likelihood of Americans having sex before marriage has remained stable since the 1950s, though people now wait longer to get married and thus are sexually active as singles for extensive periods.
Which more or less blows an infinitely huge hole in the Forced-Birth movement's arguments that sex education that talks about the use of contraceptives and other topics has promoted all sorts of social evils.
The basic statement is that the puritan notion of abstinence has a very limited amount of mileage - no big surprise to most, really.
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