5% of Americans think sex isn't sex!?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Except for the fact that the questions he was asked defined sex as giving pleasure to the other person. Bill was selfish, so it wasn’t sex.

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Or as I like to say, “…give stupid answers to stupid polls.” As I argued in a thread about results of an Obama=Kenyan poll, the more you insult a population’s intelligence, the more they’ll screw with your survey. If you ask them “What does 3+4 equal?”, you’re likely to get answers like 34 or 59831715789 just for kicks. But if you ask them some, I dunno, trig, you’ll get more right answers.

Of course, this is just a hunch.

AT THE SAME TIME?!?!

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What about poor Mahna Mahna? How do you think she’s feeling?

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Years ago I knew one curmudgeonly older man who insisted that “to have sex” means to possess the properties of maleness or femaleness. According to him, even a virgin “has sex” (i.e., has the male sex or has the female sex, as the case may be). He insisted that the proper terminology for the act is “to have sexual relations” not “to have sex.”

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Let’s not turn this into another debate about Bill Clinton, please.

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I’d say the 5% didn’t understand the poll, made a mistake, or didn’t take it seriously.

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Since a lot of these wonky responses came from older men, is it possible that they no longer consider PIV sex as sex because of erectile dysfunction? If you’ve been “having sex” with your wife for the past ten years without an erection, you might answer the survey in that way.

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I’ll take “Senile Dementia” for $600, Alex.

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So you met my roommate with the revolving door of partners who “didn’t count!”

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I had a roommate in college who thought it wasn’t sex as long as he pulled out.

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Perhaps it’s only sex if the other party is aware it’s happening.

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Maybe a tiny percentage don’t think it counts if the woman doesn’t orgasm?

An oddly worded questions does seem like the most obvious reason, though you’d think if anyone’s got their shit together for this sort of survey, it’s the Kinsey Institute. There’s also no accounting for nutjobs.

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It’s interesting that although I’ve had sex thousands and thousands of times, by some people’s standards I’m still a virgin.

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I like that word! Never seen it before today, but it’s been needed for a while >.<