College is a time of discovery for students β to expand their intellectual horizons as they pursue postsecondary education. For many students, there is an extracurricular focus on intimacy in the pursuit of carnal knowledge. We conducted a survey of 2, current and former college students to take a snapshot of activity between the sheets on U.
We learned about the frequency of intercourse, the most sexually active campuses, the average number of partners, and the use of protection. Read on to see what sex really looks like on college campuses. Want to see just how far your sexual escapades reach? Use this interactive tool originally built by Dr. Ed that we modified to calculate your college sexual exposure. Select your school and enter the number of partners you and your partners have been with. You can even compare that exposure rate to the total population of some major metropolitan areas to help put it into perspective.
Temple University, with its population of more than 37, students, takes advantage of its urban location in the heart of Philadelphia by doing a different kind of social study between classes.
Rutgers University , in New Jersey, ranked as the second most sexually active group of students. Rutgers students may not watch their Scarlet Knights win very often , but there are plenty of online suggestions about the best places to get intimate on campus if they do decide to skip a game. Students at these schools may consider themselves fierce rivals , but they should at least be able to agree on the joys of sexual exploration.
Other notable colleges and universities that had a friskier student body included Cornell University , Michigan State University , and the University of Connecticut. When we asked about their time in college, men and women actually had about the same number of unique sexual encounters, each averaging close to 5. For women, that means close to 43 percent of their total number of sexual partners came from their time at college or university. For men, their time in college only represented 35 percent of their total sexual experiences.
