sex, drugs & .. statistics?!

was reading this article on CNN.com a couple of weeks back.. it documented the results of drug use and sexual behavior as reported by adults in the US for the last few years. the blurb to the paper can be found here, but i have highlighted a few salient points here, only because they are interesting enough to give you some kind of perspective to your own lives..

• 29 percent of American men report having fifteen or more female sexual partners in a lifetime, while only 9 percent of women report having sex with fifteen or more men.
• the median number of lifetime female sexual partners for men was seven and the median number of male partners for women was four
• about 96 percent of U.S. adults have had sex; about 11 percent of never-married adults had remained chaste
• 16 percent of adults first had sex before age fifteen, while 15 percent abstained from sex until at least age twenty one
• adults who were married or had more than a high school education were less likely to use street drugs than others
• 26 percent of men and 17 percent of women have tried cocaine or other street drugs (not including marijuana) at some time in their life
• the proportion of people ever using cocaine or street drugs did not vary by poverty level; however, individuals living at twice or more times the poverty level had the lowest percentage of past use
• past year use of cocaine or street drugs increased as the age group became younger, with the youngest age group (20–29 years) having the highest prevalence