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...household to interview, again at random. Next they rigorously trained a cadre of 220 interviewers on the delicate art of conducting a frank discussion of sex. "Our feeling was that you could get people to talk about anything if you approach them right," says Edward Laumann, a sociologist at the University of Chicago...
...over. In the end an impressive 79% of the sample group of 4,369 took part. There were built-in safeguards: some questions were asked more than once in different ways, ensuring that only a motivated liar could easily convey misinformation. Of the major sex surveys to date, says sociologist Ira Reiss of the University of Minnesota, this was "probably the best thought out and has the broadest coverage...
...random sample of nearly 3,500 Americans, ages 18 to 59, selected using techniques honed through decades of political and consumer polling (see box) - will smash a lot of myths. "Whether the numbers are reassuring or alarming depends on where you sit," warns Edward Laumann, the University of Chicago sociologist who led the research team. While the scientists found that the spirit of the sexual revolution is alive and well in some quarters - they found that about 17% of American men and 3% of women have had sex with at least 21 partners - the overall impression is that...
...full results of the new survey are scheduled to be published next week as The Social Organization of Sexuality (University of Chicago; $49.95), a thick, scientific tome co-authored by Laumann, two Chicago colleagues - Robert Michael and Stuart Michaels - and John Gagnon, a sociologist from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. A thinner companion volume, Sex in America: A Definitive Survey (Little, Brown; $22.95), written with New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata, will be in bookstores this week...
...Jews to have the most sex partners (34% have had 10 or more). The women most likely to achieve orgasm each and every time (32%) are, believe it or not, conservative Protestants. But Catholics edge out mainline Protestants in frequency of intercourse. Says Father Andrew Greeley, the sociologist-priest and writer of racy romances: "I think the church will be surprised at how often Catholics have sex and how much they enjoy...