The figures of fornication and the stats of shagging.
“A round of applause, please,” says David Spiegelhalter, author of Sex by Numbers , who brought BuzzFeed's attention to these numbers. “And 26% said they had tried and failed.” The Kinsey data was collected between 1938 and 1963, though, so the numbers may have changed since then.
According to the British sex survey Natsal 3, only one act of heterosexual intercourse in 1,000 will end up with the woman getting pregnant. That's mainly because of contraception, of course.
And 1.1% described themselves as “exclusively homosexual”, according to the US National Survey of Men, 1991.
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