Sex on Campus: Ivies Prudes, Liberal Arts Slaves 4 U
Sex in the champagne room? Not for elite college students, according to a recent study. Apparently, libido’s a lot lower in the upper ranks. Intelligence and sexual drive just simply don’t mix.
Yeah, yeah, knew that, thanks IvyGate. But what if I told you that…
ZERO percent of Wellesley Studio Art majors are virgins?
That’s right. Not. A. Single. One. That’s, like, a whole 20 percent from the next closest major, those randy-ass kids in the Anthropology department. You paying attention, Crimson?
Wait, no you’re not, ’cause 59 percent of you are virgins. And neither are Princeton kids, for that matter — you’re at 56 percent.
Apparently there are a whole lot of people too busy watching Sex and the City and Entourage episodes to, you know, um, actually get down to it. But fear not! Those liberal arts kids are turning the tables, and the sexin’ is happening somewhere in isolation in Tiny Collegetown, USA. The contrasting Wellesley by-major breakdown below:
As someone in the IvyGate office mentioned, “Studio art girls PUT. OUT.”
Not only does this confirm every stereotype in existence about art-school girlfriends — um, and liberal arts colleges (which includes you, Brown), and undeclared majors, and students in the hard sciences (yes, I said hard, get your mind out of the gutter for Christ’s sake) — but that lends so much more insight into Newell’s previous post about a certain presidential hopeful.
Ugh. What was Hillary’s major again? Political science? Nevermind, that explains everything.
Nevertheless, there are all sorts of shockers in this data treasure trove: Neuroscience comes in third? Philosophy is only middling? Computer science comes in fifth, at 40 percent virgins?
Jesus lord. On that note, what the hell’s going on over at MIT? (Actually, nothing — according to the full study, only 65 percent of MIT GRADUATE students have had sex. Oy.)
Maybe some explanation, courtesy of a University of Texas study:
Another idea, consistent with popular media portrayals of geeks and nerds (males at least), is that intelligent people actually want to have sex, but are simply less likely or unable to obtain willing partners because they are disproportionately viewed as unattractive or undesirable as partners.
To bring it full-circle, classic insight from the Harvard Independent into the evolutionary psychology of Harvard dating:
Let’s take the typical Harvard girl and give her the same complementary attributes, and what you have is the ubiquitous problem of the “H-Bomb.” Whether you realized this or not, your acceptance into Harvard eliminated 99.99% of the world’s male population from being your potential love interest. Societal “standards” have deemed that you should date an Ivy-leaguer. And yes, I realize that it’s like some sick, twisted perpetuation of social Darwinism. There are slim pickings, dears, when you look at your pool of candidates. On top of the fact that you have been sucked into the cult of Ivy-cest, the “lower” Ivy males are scared of you like none other. You attend the school they were rejected from.
So what does this all mean? I don’t know, I majored in journalism and I haven’t had my coffee yet. But I swear, they must be putting something in the water up there.
So Ivy women, speak up! Surprised? E-mail ivygate.guest@gmail.com with your stories and we might compile them into one big anonymous list of sexual anecdotes proving or disproving our little theory. It’ll be like a digital Tom Wolfe novel, all on your RSS feed.
Oh, and by the way? Extrapolated, it also means there’s are 50-50 even odds on Diane Sawyer’s status while she was there as an English major.
Yeah. Exactly. – ANDREW NUSCA
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August 2nd, 2007 at 11:40 am
is the source for your graph of virgins by major?
August 2nd, 2007 at 12:23 pm
I was wondering that also. Is this one of those polls that take the answers of 10 people and try to spread them out over the entire demographic? 2 things are for certain. 1: We need to get Dartmouth’s graph up here immediately, it will make Wellesley look like elementary school; and 2: That nasty-ass Harvard sweater just made me puke. Have you stopped tagging your stories?
August 2nd, 2007 at 12:26 pm
…and *tries*
August 2nd, 2007 at 12:44 pm
@what and iheart Studio Art:
The sample size for the Wellesley survey is 12.5 percent of the student population.
More fun analysis: Overall, a higher percentage of Wellesley students are virgins than are the nation’s sixteen-year-olds at the time of the survey.
August 2nd, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Basing on the mere 12.5 percent of the student population is a pathetic survey. The information is misleading and inefficiently portrays less than half of the student population at Wellesley. My fellow classmates and I feel that we are wrongly represented. Please apologize for this lack of integrity survey graph.
August 2nd, 2007 at 1:55 pm
I agree with iHeart Studio Art. Dartmouth needs to be up there.
August 2nd, 2007 at 2:08 pm
@ Studio Major, All you need is a random sample of sufficient size for representative numbers of the student body, though they would need to survey every studio art major to claim that 0 are virgins. Otherwise, as long as the survey was well-designed, you and your fellow classmates wrongly feel that you are wrongly represented.
On another note, that Independent article is in itself a clue for Harvard’s virgins. On top of these girls being terrifyingly ugly, they try and tell us that we’re afraid of them because of their own twisted, perceived version of penis envy. HA! Listen ladies, we know you’re dying to let a big, burly Dartmouth man come out of the mountains and have his way with you, but you need to realize that your superiority complex isn’t cute, attractive, or anything more than vapid, really.
August 2nd, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Way to go CS majors! Other math/science majors can keep their experiments and proofs. We use our computers to discover SEX.
August 2nd, 2007 at 2:58 pm
IF the 12.5% were randomly chosen, Lesser Ivy is absolutely correct; the results should be very close to the truth. A Bayesian correction might be warranted — yielding an estimate of a few percent instead of zero. But we’re quibbling over a *few percent*! The results are still a ’shocker’.
Save the ‘only 12.5% sampled’ and ‘I’m the exception’ talk for your parents. I believe there is only one virgin in studio art: the one posting here. She really wants to hear that she isn’t the lone virgin in her department. Ha ha ha!
August 2nd, 2007 at 3:45 pm
i’m curious as to what the question actually was. i think you’d get different responses to the questions “have you had sex with a man” and “are you a virgin.” there are lots of women at wellesley who’ve never had hetero sex and still know how to get their swerve on.
August 2nd, 2007 at 4:07 pm
how could two ladies have sex? where would the penis go?
August 2nd, 2007 at 7:49 pm
EVERYWHERE
August 2nd, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Everywhere? Are you sure that isn’t bukkake you’re talking about?
August 2nd, 2007 at 10:09 pm
what about classics majors? i think they’re up there with studio art, seeing as i haven’t met one classics major who was a virgin (although, to be fair, there were only like 8 classics majors in the entire class of ‘06).
August 3rd, 2007 at 12:06 am
Clearly the CS majors are lying.
August 3rd, 2007 at 12:59 pm
These are *female* CS majors. I’m not sure there’s a stereotype for that.
August 6th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
I just got a warning from Facebook for posting this link… >.
August 26th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
I have seen the graph before as part of a bunch of survey results from a survey done on campus. I am actually kind of curious as to how it made its way here.
December 11th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Oh my god, who knew that I was THE ONLY virgin the the studio art department at Wellesley. It might be because this study is crap and in need of better methology.
December 11th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Oh my god, who knew that I was THE ONLY virgin the the studio art department at Wellesley. It might be because this study is crap and in need of better methology.
December 11th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Hah, it might be because you *are* the only virgin in your department. :P Anecdotes don’t validate anything.
December 11th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Go computer science!
December 11th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Can a woman lose her “virginity” to another woman? I’m serious. How would they go about it? Pics would be helpful.
December 11th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Where’s Enggineering?
December 12th, 2007 at 12:24 am
@Mike Hunt
Google it.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:38 am
it’s a graph a certain school not all schools teach all majors
December 12th, 2007 at 4:42 am
It’s true what they say about Harvard chicks. Slept with one of ‘em. A real dish rag in the sack. Ech! On the other hand, maybe I was the problem although she wanted “two helpings” that night so I don’t think I was the problem. :->
December 12th, 2007 at 11:42 am
@@ABBA
yes, the anecdote does prove something. The 0% figure cannot be accurate. It needs bayesian adjustment. This survey smacks of poor design as 0% of anything in a survey is suspect, although not impossible.
December 13th, 2007 at 1:11 am
Where is this survey from? It would be interesting to know their survey techniques/questions, sample size, rate of attrition, and standard error, because some of these figures just don’t seem right.
December 13th, 2007 at 1:19 am
What the hell?
Why are Ivy-league types so hung up about sex?
December 13th, 2007 at 1:26 am
I think this is quite an obvious result of social darwinism (if that is a valid theory). It’s difficult to know whether people are cerebral as a result of lack of sex or whether the lack of sex causes them to be cerebral. While I don’t have any stats, I think there is a inverse corrolation between the amount people think and the amount of their sexual exploits. The courses at the top of the graph are for the people who think the most, its that simple!
December 13th, 2007 at 1:37 am
this study is 6 years old, so the class of wild studio art majors has already graduated. original article: http://counterpoint.mit.edu/~webserver/Documents/archives/Counterpoint_V21_I3_2001_Nov.pdf
December 13th, 2007 at 1:47 am
A major problem with that data is that there is no mention of how those samples (12.5% of each college’s majors) were selected. If the sampling wasn’t randomized, then it’s not representative of the population, and is invalid.
Other potentially problematic points are that factors such as WHEN, WHERE, HOW, and most importantly, WHO is conducting the surveys (if applicable) could easily skew the results. People would respond differently depending on whether the researchers are male or female, or are fellow students or faculty members. And again, that’s not mentioned.
But then, if the purpose of this “study” is only to gather hits on a website, Mission Accomplished, right?
December 13th, 2007 at 1:49 am
This is interesting and all, but has any one seen the video where they ask 23 Harvard graduates why there are seasons and 21 of them think it is because the earth gets closer and further at different times of the year. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8863032177906819557 It starts 8 minutes into the video) In my opinion this is a serious issue. If you recognize that the southern hemisphere has summer when the northern hemisphere has winter, you can find the flaw in this with pure reason alone. My 7 year old students were able to recognize this even without anyone telling them. Of course there are even better explanations. So while it is funny to think about computer scientists getting laid -which I personally have never been a witness to, even though most of my friends are computer scientists- I think someone should tell me what America can do to fix common misconceptions, such as Europe being its own country or that George Bush won the 2000 elections.
December 13th, 2007 at 1:55 am
IN RELATED NEWS 60% OF COMPUTER SCIENCE MAJORS ARE LIARS.
December 13th, 2007 at 2:37 am
One thing about the sample size: “12.5%” can be adequate, but I would have preferred a number instead of a percentage (and I don’t know how many students there are in total).
Anyway, for example if there are 2000 students and they questioned 300 of them (15%), the margin of error would be 5%, which is enough for most purposes (they’d need to question 1000 students for a 2% error margin)
December 13th, 2007 at 2:47 am
@Mike Hunt, re: how can 2 women deflower one another.
2 words sir. Strap on.
December 13th, 2007 at 3:38 am
im going to check out some studio art girls and get my funk on
December 13th, 2007 at 3:39 am
im going to check out some studio art girls and get my funk on
December 13th, 2007 at 5:14 am
i think the graph reflects most of the comments written here.
December 13th, 2007 at 5:47 am
I want to know how people make it past their first quarter of college w/ out getting laid.
December 13th, 2007 at 6:21 am
I want to know how people make it past their first quarter of college w/ out getting laid.
December 13th, 2007 at 9:01 am
This is bullshit. i bet they lied. It’s easy to say your not a virgin.
December 13th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Shockingly, many people manage to make it past all four years of college “w/ out getting laid.” On purpose.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Why would math majors want sex?
Math is better!
December 13th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Why would math majors want sex?
Math is better!
December 13th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Why would math majors want sex?
Math is better!
December 13th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
@Chris Have you realized that Wellesley is all-women yet? Female comp sci majors get a pretty fair amount of action, being that they’re still a rarity in the field.
December 13th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
When questioning CompSci students, they should have at least informed them that their hand doesn’t count as sex…
December 13th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
“Intelligence and sexual drive just simply don’t mix.” So you’re saying studio are majors are stupid? Screw your head back on dumb ass. It’s just a different type of thinking.
December 13th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Get me into arts-school, promto :)
December 13th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
I’d assume the coursework would have kept my fellow neuroscience majors busy enough, but I guess not.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Where are your error bars? Stats? Who includes gridlines? Maybe if somebody’s stats crew wasn’t so busy messing around and doing real science…..oh nevermind doing it rocks.
December 15th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
@Penn08
As a CS girl in Boston, I can assure you that all you have to do in such a high tech town is say, “I know a little C++.”
December 15th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
@Penn08
As a CS girl in Boston, I can assure you that all you have to do in such a high tech town is say, “I know a little C++.”