Monday, January 25, 2010

Education and anal sex

Reader SFG suggested that I examine the claim that smart people are more likely to have anal sex because they are kinkier. Education will have to serve as a proxy measure. Here are the results for married whites from the National Couples Survey data (N = 903): 


Percent having anal sex in past four weeks

No degree 28.3*
GED 19.4*
High school 10.4
AA 9.9
BA 7.4
MA 6.9
PhD 4.9

* p < .05, two-tailed test, compared with BA.


Just the opposite. Anal is prolish behavior. Educated women don't go for that.

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  2. Nanonymous5:23 PM

    @ woman:

    The difference between "no degree" and "PhD" for couples is too large (almost 6-fold) to explain solely
    by women's preferences (possible in theory but very, very, very unlikely). Ergo, educated hetero men don't go anal either. The reasons may very well be very different though.

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  3. Anonymous5:33 PM

    Just the facts m'am. = )

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  4. Can you show how often married whites had sex at all within the last 4 weeks according to education level?

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  5. Ha-ha, I wanted to see BDSM, but they don't have a question for it!

    Hey, thanks for answering my question anyway. Amusing actually...I don't know about anyone else, but I always had the superstition that the educated had kinkier sex...but data have proved me wrong!

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  6. I am very happy to read this article..thanks for giving us this useful information.

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