People at Harvard Need to Have More Sex

Crazy statistics from the Ivy world.

College is not just about studying + sleeping together, especially not in the world of the Ivy Leagues. According to a Harvard survey, 52% of students had one or zero sexual partners, and 28% had one dating partner in four years. One Crimson writer explores the Ivies and sex.

The Crimson looks at other Ivy League schools to help figure out what's going on.  Go Ask Alice, the advice column of Columbia U, noted that most college students questioned in a similar survey had zero or one sexual partners in a year and thought that most at the college were doing it more-- three times more, to be exact.

In addition to the Ivy finds, it' was noted by Newsweek that men's sexual activity in college from 2001 to 2006 went down from 2.1 to 1.6 partners. 31% of women who graduate from college are virgins, too.

The culprit is "over-scheduling," writes Maya E. Schwayder, who says that her friends simply say that "'you all are so dang hard to get a hold of.'" Schwayder continues:

"What they don't point out is that we are over-scheduled of our own volition. Everyone puts their work first, believing that in the long run, an on-time Gov 20 paper will be more beneficial than a potentially-awkward date with last Saturday's hook-up," she writes.

"This generates a society of isolated academia, and we lose sight of the fact that one year from now, that paper's grade will mean nothing. And that date may have been the start of something really special."

My hypothesis is a little bit different-- people are too busy Tweet-flirting and Facebook stalking to actually get busy. What's your take on the Crimson report?