{"id":4134,"date":"2007-01-23T07:29:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T12:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4134"},"modified":"2007-01-23T05:38:15","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T10:38:15","slug":"sex_by_the_numb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/23\/sex_by_the_numb\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last November, India Today (with AC Neilsen and others) reported on their fourth ever national sex survey [Thanks reader sohwhat!]. This time round they focussed on India&#8217;s youth. Here are some highlights (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiatoday.com\/itoday\/20061113\/cover.shtml&#038;SET=T\">behind the subscription wall<\/a>, although you can see a summary of their findings in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/DEL8022.htm\">Reuters article<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;46% single 16-25-year-old males have had sex, 10% higher than the 2004 survey&#8221; \n<li>&#8220;37% single young men have had a homosexual experience, compared to 31% in 2004&#8221; \n<li>&#8220;The average age of first sexual encounter for men has come down from 23 in 2004 to 18.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>Some of these findings, by the way, don&#8217;t quite add up. For example, while only 46% of young males claimed to have had sex, &#8220;49% young men have had sex with sex workers. In Ludhiana, it as high as 63%.&#8221; That seems a bit bizarre. After all, if you&#8217;ve had sex with a sex worker, you&#8217;ve had sex. <\/p>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>p>Also, the idea that close to 50% of all males have had sex with a sex worker, if true, is trouble from the perspective of the spread of HIV.<\/p>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>p>As for the women, some admit to having sex, but not as many, and they&#8217;re starting later than the boys:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;In 2005&#8230; only 24 per cent single women between the ages of 18 and 30 &#8230; had had sex.&#8221; \n<li>&#8220;42 per cent [of single women] said they had their first sexual encounter between the ages of 19 and 21.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>Despite this busyness in the sack for both sexes, both men and women say women should stay virgins until they are married:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;63% single young men expect the woman they marry to be a virgin, 10% lower than in 2004&#8221; \n<li>&#8220;In the 2005 survey of single women, 66 per cent agreed, saying women should remain virgins till they are married.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>The most disturbing finding was one about the prevalence of incest, which implies that a large number of females are having forced sex with family members:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;14 per cent [of single males] claim to have had sex with family members.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>That number is horrifying enough, but when you consider that there was likely under-reporting, it&#8217;s even more disturbing. <\/p>\n\n<p>All quotes from the India Today Sex Survey Cover Article, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiatoday.com\/itoday\/20061113\/cover.shtml&#038;SET=T\">Men in a Muddle<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last November, India Today (with AC Neilsen and others) reported on their fourth ever national sex survey [Thanks reader sohwhat!]. This time round they focussed on India&#8217;s youth. Here are some highlights (from behind the subscription wall, although you can &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/23\/sex_by_the_numb\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}