That is reported shit and still almost twice as many sexually active females compared to males. Now consider that many men who didn't get laid would feel encouraged to lie that they did and many women who did get laid would feel encouraged to lie that they didn't.
"80/20 is just a myth"
One of the comments from the post:
*corrected some of the data to exclude postgraduate numbers
I actually think the sexlessness is a good thing, considering I'm more trad in my views (i.e. no to premarital sex). But as for the data.
From the Twitter feed:
Male students are less sexually active than female counterparts:
34% of men
47% of women
Interesting that there is a 13% difference between the sexes in terms of sexual activity.
But here is where it gets really odd. (This is not a perfect analysis considering these sexual activity stats are recent and I am using 2018 college numbers, but I cannot imagine the 2018 numbers have dramatically leveled. Gender imbalances in college attendance have been fairly steady and growing for awhile.) In 2018, the UK gender ratio for college attendance was 57% female, 43% male. You would think that with males being in much shorter supply at universities, the law of supply and demand would take over and the "sexually active" stats by gender would be reversed. But apparently not so.
Further, if you break this down by numbers, there were 1.8 million undegraduate students studying in the UK from 2018-2019. That means there were about 1.03 million undergraduate females, and about 0.77 million undergraduate males attending university in the UK between 2018-2019. If you then figure in the sexually active statistics, that would make for about 484,000 sexually active females, and 262,000 sexually active males.
Think about that.
There is almost double the amount of sexually active female students versus the amount of sexually active male students. Double.
Are these women having sex with younger than college-age men? Are they having sex with men their age who aren't going to college? Are they having sex with older men? Are they having sex with the same small group of men who are their age and in college? Some combination of all of this?
I think the two most likely possibilities are the last two (older men/same small group of men), which would confirm these two talking points that are routinely discussed here.
