Most Americans Have Had Premarital Sex
“This is reality-check research,” said the study’s author, Lawrence Finer. “Premarital sex is normal behavior for the vast majority of Americans, and has been for decades.”
Actually, it’s been that way since the pre-Colonial era. There’s a gracious plenty of research and historical documentation out there on it, WHY aren’t you utilizing it? People who wanted to get married couldn’t because of a lack of clergy and/or distance from civil authorities; couples who were in an otherwise committed relationship were culturally accepted as licit; people who were married by a cleric outside of their religion weren’t considered “truly” married until someone from their OWN religion performed the ceremony.
The basic “reasons” for the existence may have changed as our society changed and modernized, but much like every OTHER aspect of sex that’s been criminalized and/or socially regulated, I very seriously doubt that it will go away.
However, Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America, a conservative group which strongly supports abstinence-only education, said she was skeptical of the findings.
Now THAT’S funny.