Study dispels notions of 'no-holds barred' sex on campus

The Chicago Tribune reports:

Despite popular alarm and fascination with "hooking up" on campus, college students are not having sex with more partners than in the past few decades, are no more accepting of sex before marriage and are actually less likely to report having sex weekly or more often, according to a study released Tuesday.

"We're not living in a new era of no-holds-barred sexuality," said Martin Monto, the University of Portland sociology professor who co-wrote the study. For instance, fewer than a third of college students surveyed between 2002 and 2010 said they had had sex with more than one person in the preceding year — about the same level as reported during the late 1980s and early '90s.

As many colleges become de-facto women's schools: there aren't enough males on campus to keep the averages up.