• Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Sex Rumors

The Ithacan surveyed 450 student about their sexual behavior to debut or prove true common sex stereotypes.

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• Rumor #1

  The average Ithaca College student had more than one sexual partner last semester.

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  Ithaca College students do not have as much sex as their peers think they do.

  While students assume that lots of sex is going on around them, the numbers don’t add up. Students who took The Ithacan’s survey said they thought their fellow students had about two sexual partners each last semester, in actuality most Ithaca College students had one or no sexual partners. Only 20 of our 450 survey-takers reported having six or more sexual partners last semester.

• Rumor #2

  LGBT students have more sex than their heterosexual peers.

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  You chose false and you are:

  WRONG

  According to The Ithacan’s survey, LGBT students reported having more sex than their heterosexual peers.

  The Ithacan found this rumor to be true. More than a quarter of heterosexual students had no sexual partners last semester, but less than 17 percent of LGBT students were abstinent last semester. While only 2.3 percent of heterosexual students said they had sexual encounters with six or more people last semester, 12.7 percent of LGBT students said they had six or more sexual partners in the same time.

• Rumor #3

  Female students are more likely to regret drunken sexual encounters than male students.

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  More male students regret their drunken sexual encounters than female students.

  This rumor is false. According to The Ithacan’s survey, about 70 percent of both male and female students have had drunken sexual encounters, but about 42 percent of men have regretted a drunken sexual encounter compared to about 36 percent of women. While about 64 percent of heterosexual students said they regretted drunken sexual decisions, nearly half of LGBT students said they’d had a drunken sexual experience that they later regretted.

• Rumor #4

  Male students have more sexual partners than female students.

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  WRONG

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  Male students reported having more sexual partners than female students.

  This rumor is true. At Ithaca College in the last semester, more than 70 percent of female students had either one or zero partners. Not even 60 percent of male students could say the same. The more partners, the larger the amount of disparity between numbers of sex partners for men and women. Less than 0.5 percent of women had six or more sexual partners last semester while almost nine percent of men reported the same.

• Rumor #5

  Ithaca College has an average amount of LGBT students for a four-year intuition.

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  According to The Ithacan’s survey, Ithaca College has almost two and a half times the national average of LGBT students on a college campus.

  In the Spring 2011 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment, 6.6 percent of college students identified as LGBT. In the survey conducted by The Ithacan, almost 16 percent of students identified as LGBT. Ithaca College is widely recognized as an LGBT-friendly campus and was named one of 17 to LGBT campuses the Campus Climate Index, a tool used to evaluate the LGBT-friendliness of a campus.