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National surveys show oral sex is common across ages but tends to increase with age: most adults (>75–80%) report ever giving or receiving oral sex, while adolescents report lower but still substantia...
By age 18 there is no single, nationally reported percentage that cleanly answers “what share of males have performed or received oral sex with another male,” but multiple national surveys give a cons...
National surveys and research reviews show oral-sex initiation typically clusters in mid-to-late adolescence (roughly ages 15–18) with prevalence rising sharply into the early 20s and then varying acr...
Recent, peer-reviewed analyses report a modest negative correlation between having more non‑marital sex partners and the probability that a person — particularly women in cross‑sectional U.S. surveys ...
Multiple recent analyses converge on a nuanced picture: several studies and reports find , but the relationship varies by dataset, measurement, and interpretation. Major sources include a 2023 Wheatle...
Across National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) waves from 2002 through the early‑to‑mid 2010s, the clearest pattern in the published literature is that same‑sex sexual experience rose for women in bro...
Most major U.S. nationally representative sexual‑behavior surveys ask about whether respondents have had anal intercourse, but explicit questions that distinguish directionality — who was insertive ve...
Recent academic work finds a consistent statistical link in U.S. data between the number of premarital sexual partners and higher subsequent divorce risk, with the most rigorous 2024 analysis identify...
National, probability-based surveys that ask about oral sex (e.g., NHANES and NSFG) document how common oral sex is but do not ask a standard, nationally representative question about whether women “u...
Representative surveys show that oral sex (typically measured as ever giving or receiving fellatio or cunnilingus) is common in high‑income countries—with lifetime prevalence often above 75–80% in adu...
Representative population surveys show that performing oral sex is very common among heterosexual women—most large U.S. probability studies find lifetime rates above three‑quarters—yet nationally repr...
Available surveys show that most U.S. women report ever having performed oral sex, but the sources provided do not supply a single, recent national percentage for women who gave oral sex to male partn...