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According to recent figures from a New York Health Department survey of safe-sex practices, it seems that the Big Apple is no city of lovers.
Apparently, only eleven percent of New Yorkers reported having more than one sex partner in the past year, according to the report which was released yesterday. So this leaves 89 percent in either the “faithful” or “not having much” categories.
Only five percent of married couples or those in a relationship reported being unfaithful during the past 12 months, although seven percent of men said they had multiple sex partners, and three percent of women reported extra-marital activity. However, officials did concede that married people might be reluctant to confess to affairs.
Health Commissioner Dr. Tom Frieden said he was especially concerned about the 36 percent of gay men who had five or more sexual partners, and didn’t use condoms consistently.
Unsurprisingly, the top lovers were men aged 18 to 24; thirty-four percent of which said they had two or more partners in the past year, which is almost double the percentage of women in the same age group.
However, by age 45, the report found that only eleven percent of men had been with more than one partner in the previous 12 months.
The sex study is part of the larger annual Community Health Survey of 10,000 adults, conducted each year by the New York Health Department.
Posted by Jonathan in Polls & Surveys, Sociology