But the bottom line is that if we discount commercial sex, the number of "legitimate" sex partners for most folks is not that great for a very simple reason - outside colleges and bohemian circles, social life in the US is not very intensive by international standards, and confined for the most part to formal settings (work) Assuming that the average US-er works from 9 to 5 and then commutes back home for an hour -- he gets home around 6 o'clock which does not leave him much time for socializing and, by implication, for having sexual encounters except commercially arranged quickies.
Wojtek ^^^^^^ CB: However, there is a lot of free time for fun on the weekends. And if you don't have to be to work until 9, you don't have to go to bed until 12:00 or 1:00. I'm kind of skeptical about the working class doing it less than college students. Maybe you could get some stats on condom sales. As for U.S. working class social life in general, I don't know, There are lots of bars that stay in business. I'm not persuaded of what you guess here.