If you're having bad sex, painful sex, embarrassing sex, then you're huddled in the same boat with an awful lot of other Americans.
Sex is a modest pleasure.
I don't find the pleasure in, or the concern about, sex to be modest at all. What struck me about these new statistics was how similar they are to those I've found in my own informal surveys of college students over the last 10 years. My numbers, particularly for young women, are almost identical to those found in the JAMA article. In my analysis, these young women see sex as something they are supposed to master in order to land the kind of man who can raise their social status. When it comes to their own erotic desires, they seem bewildered, repulsed or oblivious.