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Sexual Behavior and Attitudes among White, Black, Latinx, and Asian College Students - Contexts
Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers.
This article is from just before the P(l)andemic, so it's quite interesting to see things before such an event.
I like this part here, it shows that the study was collected data over the years, and also seemed to try & focus specific types of student based upon their wording.We used data from the Online College Social Life Survey (OCSLS), collected by Paula England between 2005 and 2010, to compare White, Black, Latinx, East Asian, and South Asian students. (We call these racial groups for brevity, realizing that Latinx is sometimes considered an ethnicity rather than a race.) We examined racial differences separately for men and women and compared groups on attitudes and behaviors. The percents, means, or medians in the graphs below are regression-adjusted to remove any part of racial differences that stems from group differences in age, immigrant status, mother’s education, whether their parents are still together, school, height, and body mass index (BMI). For more details on our models, see the Technical Appendix at the end of this post.
As such, it can be concluded that whilst the results may be somewhat skewed, it will show how things are for the standard male or female college student in the United States.
First thing I found to be quite interesting, is this:
I was genuinely expecting the South Asian(Curry), East Asian, and even Latino numbers to be highest amongst the males, yet it seems that foids consistently view it just as bad -if not much worse- than the average male.
This, will obviously be quit interesting to compare with later on.
Racial group differences in sexual behavior
Now, this should have been generally pretty predictable: However, it is quit interesting to see that a surplus amount of foids who have never had intercourse. That's probably the only genuine surprise I found whilst reading this article.Now we move to behavior, starting with the simplest measure—the percent of students who are still virgins. In our sample, in which the average student was in their second year of college, South Asians have the highest proportion of virgins: 66% of women and 50% of men had never had intercourse.
Predictable again.The group with the next highest rate is East Asians. Whites, Blacks, and Latinx students all have lower rates of between 21% and 34% virgins.
Next, we look at the number of hookups since the start of college each group reported. We use the median (the number that the man or woman at the 50thpercentile had) rather than the mean (the average) because the median is less influenced by the few students who reported extremely high numbers of hookups. Among men, Asians have the lowest number of hookups, with a median of one hook up, Latinx men are next with a little above two, and Whites and Blacks are the highest with almost identical medians at approximately three hookups. Among women, we Black and East or South Asian women have hooked up little, Latinx women are in the middle, White women have hooked up the most. While this shows that hooking up is most prevalent among whites, it also shows that it is certainly not only a “white thing.” Indeed, among men, as we saw it is done about the same amount by Black and White men.
Now obviously, what surprises me if the discrepancy between male & female hookups here.
Various reasons could account for this:
-One probability, is just that more attractive males go off to college especially in the United States which does somewhat check out: However, still a solid amount of males at these institutes still tend to be virgins, which I will touch on later.
-Another factor is the possibility that foids are much more selective & nit-pick in college
This, however, is quite interesting:
Another behavioral indicator is the number of partners with whom one has ever had intercourse. In this analysis, virgins count as having zero partners, and we limited the count to the number of partners of the other sex, ignoring any same-sex partners. We examine medians rather than averages because there are some extreme outliers with many partners, which affect means more than medians. The graph below shows that among both women and men, Asians have had the least number of partners. Among women, there is little difference between Whites, Blacks, and Latinas, all of whom have had between 1.5 and 2 partners. Among men, however, Blacks have substantially more than other men, with a median slightly more than 4, compared to between 2 and 2.5 for Whites and Latinx men, and less for Asian men.
Blacks -and even Latinos- seem to have a higher percentage of median numbers of intercourse partners, so much for "
Now to clarify, the article defined hookups & actually having intercourse under a few differing terms:
As students define the term “hookup,” a hookup may involve little or even nothing more than making out, and these data show that about 40% of hookups involve intercourse.
So a lot of the guys who were having these hookups, seemed to not even actually be having intercourse.
The question didn’t clarify what was meant by “sex.” However, there is lots of qualitative evidence that heterosexual students usually take the term to mean intercourse, whereas a majority of what they call hookups do not involve intercourse.
Explaining racial differences and race-gender intersections
This elaborates on things more: Curries & Rices immigrating are more likely to be immigrants whom come from more "trad" or "conservative" cultures, which of course will factor in.Where we see differences, Asians, especially South Asians, appear the most conservative in attitudes and behavior, Latinx students are in the middle, and either Whites or Blacks are generally the most permissive, depending on the issue. In this blog post, we can’t fully answer the complicated questions of what causes these differences, but we offer some ideas, with some data to back them up.
Over 95% of both the East Asian and South Asian students in our study are either first- or second-generation immigrants – that is, either they were themselves born outside the U.S., or one or both of their parents were. We speculate that the relatively conservative attitudes and less active sexual behavior of Asians result from the influence of their immigrant parents from Asia. Fewer, but a still high 82%, of the Latinx students in our study are first- or second-generation immigrants, so this explanation may apply somewhat to them as well. By contrast, only 16% of Whites and 35% of Black students in the study are immigrants or had an immigrant parent. (See the technical appendix for more details on this.)
Overall, this was quite an interesting read for a few reasons: It highlighted to us that Inceldom is generally a universal problem, as indicated by this.
Whilst college students -at least the ones from the United States- tend to be from more wealthier families, which correlates with wealth, we still see a solidified amount of male students across all racial demographics report being sexless. Thus, proving Inceldom is a universal issue.