Flip through the magazines. Listen to Oprah. Lurk in the seamier corners of cyberspace. An endless succession of young, hard bodies preparing for, recovering from or engaging in constant, relentless copulation. Sex is everywhere in America - and in the ads, films, TV shows and music videos it exports abroad.
Nobody knows for sure.
Don't believe the magazine polls that have Americans mating energetically two or three times a week. For 14 years he collared hitchhikers who passed through town and quizzed them mercilessly. It was hardly a random cross section. Now, more than 40 years after Kinsey, we finally have some answers. A team of researchers based at the University of Chicago has released the long-awaited results of what is probably the first truly scientific survey of who does what with whom in America and just how often they do it.