Premarital Sex in America

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Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying

by Mark Regnerus and Jeremy Uecker

Oxford University Press, 312 pp., $24.95

IN A COLLEGE CAMPUS STUDY in 1989, physically attractive people approached opposite-sex students and asked, “Would you go to bed with me tonight?” Not a single woman said yes, but seventy-five percent of men accepted the invitation. This gender disparity forms the basis of the theory of “sexual economics,” which starts from the familiar premise that most guys want sex to be as easy as possible.

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