# Another myth shattered, this time about premarital sex **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 28, 2008, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-myth-shattered-this-time-about-premarital-sex/469928 "2008-10-28T12:50:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-myth-shattered-this-time-about-premarital-sex/469928/61 "2008-10-30T10:29:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Further, contrary to the public perception that premarital sex is much more common now than in the past, the study shows that even among women who were born in the 1940s, nearly nine in 10 had sex before marriage. And slightly more than 1 out of 10 was a compulsive liar. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-myth-shattered-this-time-about-premarital-sex/469928/62 "2008-10-30T11:09:18Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > You don’t want to hear what parents born in the early '50s (like us) do. We invented the sexual revolution, after all. 🆒 I sure as hell don’t! (considering my parent are born then) ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-myth-shattered-this-time-about-premarital-sex/469928/63 "2008-10-30T11:47:19Z")
I was born less than 9 months after my parents married. I just recently learned that my mom was born either shortly before or less than 9 months after her parents married. That shocked me because aunt had given me the impression that granny was a conservative religious woman (whom I’d expect to wait until marriage). If I hadn’t had that view in my mind, it wouldn’t have surprised. It doesn’t bother me, though. She was 30-something when she married, I prefer what I know that she had sex way before then. Same with my mom (she was over 30 when I was born). Heck, I don’t picture it, though I’ve seen both of my parents naked/in underwear (maaaany years ago the first one, I see most of my relatives in underwear for the second), but I wish/hope/want all of my older relatives to get laid (with their SOs) as frequently, happily, and nastily as they want. It gives me hope for my future. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-myth-shattered-this-time-about-premarital-sex/469928/64 "2008-10-30T12:53:33Z")
There’s an old saying about babies being born 6 months after the wedding: Them kids planted the corn before they built the fence! ---
**Author:** ![Minnie\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-myth-shattered-this-time-about-premarital-sex/469928/65 "2008-10-30T14:34:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Since the subject of extramarital sex has also been mentioned, I recall reading years ago about how when the US military started experimenting with blood typing it’s soldiers, they discovered that something like a third were “illegitimate” ( which is only a lower bound, given the limits of blood types for determining parentage ). They covered up the findings at the time; it was considered too scandalous to reveal. Jared Diamond mentions this is his book _The Third Chimpanzee_. The experiment was to determine the heredity of blood types. They took blood from mom, baby and “dad”. Anywhere from 10-30% of kids did not match with “dad’s” blood type. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-myth-shattered-this-time-about-premarital-sex/469928.md?page=3)