A new Valentine’s Day survey of students’ sexual preferences by The Daily Pennsylvanian has found that more than two-thirds of University of Pennsylvania undergraduates are sexually active, writes Kira Wang for The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Around 10 percent of the student population — or 1,008 undergraduates — participated in the anonymous survey:

• 410 men
• 562 women
• 156 nonbinary, genderqueer, genderfluid, or agender students

Out of that, 68.2 percent said they are sexually active.

“[Young people are] at an age where it’s a tenant to come out and explore, trying to understand their own sexuality,” said Penn anthropology professor Theodore Schurr. “Desire hormones are running high.”

The sample included students from the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Wharton School, and the School of Nursing.

The results showed that engineering students have the most sex at Penn, with 76 percent being sexually active. Meanwhile, nursing students are having the least sex, at 58 percent.

Sexual activity increases as students progress through university. Around 40 percent of first years said they were still virgins, while just eight percent of seniors said the same thing. The results contradict a past stereotype that the first years at Penn are especially promiscuous.

Read more about the survey in The Daily Pennsylvanian.

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