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MIT is virgin territory
By adamg on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 8:45am
The Tech reports 42% of MIT students considers themselves virgins (way higher than the national average), with chem majors the least likely to have had themselves deflowered. The report also discloses that 52% of non-virgin seniors have committed floorcest, or sex with dorm mates.
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As they say at Caltech...
Women undergraduate students at Caltech say, "The odds are good, but the goods are odd."
Heh
That slogan has also been known to appear on t-shirts worn by Wellesley undergrads. Coincidence?
What, share bodily fluids?
That's just gross ... here, lets look at 'em under the microscope ... see?
Besides, who needs sex when you can synthesize your own awesome designer drugs?
I just love that main survey article
So many charts and pie graphs!
Turns Me On!
Funny how the media studies and urban planning people are getting laid at much greater frequencies than most ... although these are graduate heavy departments.
My old course 3 is dismal ... when did everybody stop sleeping with each other for fun? Tsk tsk, kids today!
This is what happens when
This is what happens when people have high intelligence and high standards, but are lacking in the physical attraction department themselves.
pretty major assumption there
Really? You don't know much about modern MIT, do you? Or maybe you find intelligent people to be physically unattractive as a matter of course. The two are not mutually exclusive - in fact, Erika Ebbel from MIT recently represented Massachusetts in the Miss America pageant.
As someone who was once a rather cute female freshman at a time when the ratio of men to women at MIT was between 3 and 4 to 1, I found that physical attractiveness was more of a liability in the MIT dating game than an asset. It creates serious noise. It means 23 year old grad students hitting on you when you are 17 years old. It makes socially awkward males bump each other aside at parties in crude ways to be near you when you don't want to be near either of them because of they weird way they are competing for your attention. That said, MIT has a lot of physically attractive men and women ... they just don't all wear makeup and parade it about because it isn't all they have to offer the world ... or what they wish to offer the world.
It could be
Maybe MIT students are just inherently more honest about their virginity than other schools.
Yep
They may also have more long term goals and a better grasp of how sexual activity can derail those. I knew several very attractive people who intentionally never had boy or girlfriends because they didn't want the distraction.
Baker Hall Purity Test
And yet there is time for
And yet there is time for 500 question purity tests? Please, if they were so focused on nerddom to the point that it crowded out time for sex, they also shouldn't have had time to know you.
It isn't about time
It is about focus. Relationships eat both time and focus. Besides, you can always put down the 500 questions and walk off.
It wasn't 500 questions until Carnege Mellon nerds got a hold of it. When I took it in 1984, it was more like 70.
Modern equivalent of the monastic call?
Would that be like the sense of vocation commonly felt in an earlier era?
Où sont les Geek Porn d'antan ?
Is my memory playing tricks or didn't the MIT undergrads put up a website "Geek Porn" around 2000 or so? I seem to recall a fair amount of pulchritude there, once I was alerted to its existence, including the beguiling shot of a willowy woman lounging outside on a bench dressed in nothing but Fermat's Theorem. Rampant virginity aside, "nerd" definitely does not equal "butter face." I believe the administration eventually prevailed on the students to take the site down.
"Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink"-- and the Eliot Spitzer codicil -- "never put it in e-mail."
"Consider themselves
"Consider themselves virgins?"
Kind of like considering yourself pregnant.
"The numbers are predictably
"The numbers are predictably higher for freshman class, which is 64 percent virgins: 60 percent of men and 69 percent of women. The freshmen numbers square with national estimates"
And yet the other day I was reading about how supposedly 1/3 of 9th graders have had sex.
Based on my college experience (from people I know) Ive found that a majority of students enter college as virgins. Hollywood, of course, would like to make you believe that most people have sex early in high school.
I feel that when the 9th graders are surveyed, they lie, while college students are more comfortable being honest.
studies in the US are pretty consistent...
the average age for americans to lose their virginity is around 17. a little younger for boys, a little older for girls. but right around there.
so your experience could also be your peer group, your age, or where you went to college.
i knew a bunch of virgins in college, too, but i knew a large slew of sexually active kids in high school.