International Sex
November, 2001
The headline in The New York Times last spring proclaimed On sex, U.S. and France speak same Language. Researchers had compared landmark sex surveys from both sides of the Atlantic and discovered that if you ask the same questions, you get the same answers. Monogamy is still in fashion: More than 90 percent of the men and women who lived together reported that they had had only one sexual partner in the past year. No statistical difference was found in the length of marriages. About half of the...
