April 26, 2011

Keep it moral, St. Olaf

From the BORSC report on Health at St. Olaf, in a section called “Positives”:

Sexual Behavior

Students reported the following number of sexual partners within the last 12 months:

# of sexual partners St. Olaf Nationally None 50.2% 28.8% 1 34.1% 45.0% 2+ 15.8% 26.1%

Why the difference? Perhaps having numerous sexual partners is not considered as socially acceptable here as other places.  These numbers also reflect the fact that there is less reporting of involvement in serious relationships here at St. Olaf than nationally. 

I have trouble calling it a “positive” that a majority of healthy men and women of reasonable sexual age are reporting celibacy.