Sinister: Sex! Yeah! No B&S content! well, a PBS reference...

[Amanda Bergman]

unless you have some sort of overtly sexual sex/B&S thing going on, which
is entirely possible...

in any case.

More reasons to drop out of school! And more reasons to watch PBS, even
though the B&S session seems to be a moot point now.

The following article appeared in our uni's daily newspaper today, and I
found it most amusing. So here it is for any of you who might be interested:
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More time in school means less time in bed, study finds

 (Television watchers, jazz enthusiasts, Jews and agnostics are the most
sexually active, the University of Chiacgo study shows.)

If you want to get the most sexual pleasure out of life, drop out of
college[=university].

That's the suggestion from a new study of sex habits to be published next
month in American Demographics magazine. The nationwide survery of 10,000
people found that the greater their educational attainment, the less sex
they had.

The people who have the most sex are those who have some college education
but are not college graduates, the survey found. People who have graduate
degrees are the least likely of all to frequently have sex.

Michael Bailey, a Northwestern associate professor who teaches Human
Sexuality, said he ws somewhat surprised at the survey results. Men with
lucrative jobs, such as doctors, lawyers, and businessmen have the most
sexual partners because women are attracted to men with high earning
potential, Baily said. But men with Ph.D.s may not be so lucky.

"The Ph.D. effect for men when they're in graduate school--it's not a
high-status position," Bailey said. "And when they've graduated, they don't
make as much money as people with lesser degrees" such as MBAs, making them
less attractive.

Lyle Davis, a Northwestern graduate student who is married to a Kellogg
Graduate School of Management graduate, said business students do seem to
have more active social lives than students in other graduate fields.

"Most graduate students are single and not dating," said Davis, 25.
"They're involved in their studies pretty intensely, so they wouldn't be so
active."

Dropping out of school, however, is not the only way to increase your
sexual activity. The survey found that people who work long hours and watch
a lot of television are more sexually active than average. The best channel
to watch: PBS.

"Who would have thought that National Geographic specials or Ken Burns'
history of baseball could get people in the mood?" the survey said.

Jazz enthusiasts are 30 percent more sexually active than the average
person, the survey found. Liking other types of music, such as rock, seems
to be unrelated to sexual activity. While Catholics are slightly more
active than Protestants, both Christian groups are 20 percent less active
than Jews or agnostics.

People who identify themselves as liberals have a higher sexual frequency
than moderates or conservatives. "Extreme liberals" are most sexually
active. However, sexual activity is also above average for "extreme
conservatives." Apparently, people who are passionate about politics are
passionate about other things, too.

The survey was conducted by social scientists at the University of Chicago.
As for their own sexual activity? Dumb question.
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Amanda Bergman
Northwestern University
a-bergman at nwu.edu

"How do I offend you, when I only
mean to put beauty in my mind
and not my mind in the beauty?"

--Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz


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