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as the single best source of data on societal trends. It contains a standard “core” of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remained unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings. The GSS takes the pulse of America, and is an unusual and valuable resource. It has tracked the opinions of Americans over the last four decades.

2. For more information, see http://cloud9.norc.uchicago.edu/faqs/sex.htm.

3. Edward O. Laumann, John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels, The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).

4. See Edward O. Laumann, John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels, The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994); and Edward O. Laumann, Robert T. Michael, and Gina Kolata, Sex in America: A Definitive Survey (New York: Warner Books, 1994).

5. F. Scott Christopher and Susan Sprecher, “Sexuality in Marriage, Dating, and Other Relationships: A Decade Review,” Journal of Marriage and Family 62, no. 4 (November 2000): 1002, doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2000.00999.x.

6. Michael J. McFarland, Jeremy E. Uecker, and Mark D. Regnerus, “The Role of Religion in Shaping Sexual Frequency and Satisfaction: Evidence from Married and Unmarried Older Adults,” Journal of Sex Research 47 (March 26, 2010): 1–12, doi: 10.1080/00224491003739993.

7. Michael J. McFarland, Jeremy E. Uecker, and Mark D. Regnerus, “The Role of Religion in Shaping Sexual Frequency and Satisfaction: Evidence from Married and Unmarried Older Adults,” Journal of Sex Research 47 (March 26, 2010): 6. It is important to note that individuals who said they were Baptist or nondenominational Christian were classified as Evangelical Protestants, while those stating other Protestant denominations (Episcopalians, Methodist, etc.) were classified as Mainline Protestants.

8. Michael J. McFarland, Jeremy E. Uecker, and Mark D. Regnerus, “The Role of Religion in Shaping Sexual Frequency and Satisfaction: Evidence from Married and Unmarried Older Adults,” Journal of Sex Research 47 (March 26, 2010), 9–10.

9. Ibid., 1.

10. The findings reported here were calculated by a Docent researcher using publicly available data from the 2008 General Social Survey (GSS), accessible online here: http://www.norc.org/GSS+Website. Data were weighted appropriately.

11. This was calculated based on which group had the highest percentage in the “weekly” through “four times a week or more” categories.

12. Edward Laumann discusses the difficulty of getting government funding to ask about masturbation. He says that government officials reason “that masturbation was a private matter.” Edward O. Laumann, Robert T. Michael, and Gina Kolata, Sex in America: A Definitive Survey (New York: Warner Books, 1994), 28.

13. Mark D. Regnerus, Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).

14. The National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR), http://www.youthandreligion.org/.

15. Mark D. Regnerus, Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 116.

16. See Edward O. Laumann, John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels, The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994); and Edward O. Laumann, Robert T. Michael, and Gina Kolata, Sex in America: A Definitive Survey (New York: Warner Books, 1994).

17. These categories are zero times in last year, one to two times a year, three to five times a year, every other month, once a month, two to three times a month, once a week, several times a week, every day, and more than once a day.

18. Another limitation of this data is how dated it now is.

19. These countries include Sweden (see Stuart Brody and Rui Miguel Costa, “Satisfaction (Sexual, Life, Relationship,