By anthony | Published: March 7, 2010
Hoosiers don't always agree on what constitutes sex: Indiana University's Kinsey Institute tracks (among other things) the public's attitude towards sex, and recently published the results of a survey that asked a fairly simple question: would you say you "had sex" if you engaged in activity X? As the title—"Misclassification bias: diversity in conceptualisations about having 'had sex'"—implies, there's anything but universal agreement. The numbers generally go down as you move from plain old intercourse through anal and oral sex, but there are some surprising results in subpopulations. "A surprising number of older men did not consider penile-vaginal intercourse to be sex," as the press material indicates. I'd personally consider any number greater than zero to be surprising, but apparently at least 25 Indiana residents fell into that category.
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