- Percentage of college men who say they might commit rape if there were no chance of being caught: 35
- Percentage of acknowledged male homosexuals who are fathers: 25 - “Gay and Bisexual Fathers,” by Dr. Barbara Keating and Dr. Kelley M.L. Brigman (Mankato State University, Minn.)
- Weight of the average female fashion model in 1970 (in pounds): 112 - Ford Models Inc. (New York City)
- Weight of the average female fashion model today: 122 - Ford Models Inc. (New York City)
- Average percentage change in a woman’s standard of living in the year after a divorce: -73 - The Divorce Revolution: The Unexpected Social and Economic Consequences for Women and Children in America, by Lenore J. Weitzman (The Free Press)
- Average percentage change in a man’s standard of living in the year after a divorce: +43 - The Divorce Revolution: The Unexpected Social and Economic Consequences for Women and Children in America, by Lenore J. Weitzman (The Free Press)
- Percentage of abortions in the United States that are performed on Catholic women: 29 - Alan Guttmacher Institute (New York City) and National Abortion Federation (Washington, D.C.)
- Percentage of 13- to 15-year-old boys who say that it is acceptable for a man to rape his wife: 86 - Jacqueline Jackson Kikuchi, Rhode Island Rape Crisis Center (Providence, R.I.)
- Percentage of Americans who say that pregnant women who smoke or drink should be liable for harm to the fetus: 48 - Hippocrates-Gallup Poll (Princeton)
- Estimated number of women worldwide who die each year as a result of illegal abortions: 200,000 - World Health Organization (Geneva)
- Average percentage increase in the protrusion of a woman’s buttocks when she wears high heels: 25 - William A. Rossi (Marshfield, Mass.)
- Percentage of male college students who say that “some women look as though they’re just asking to be raped”: 84 - Donn Byrne, State University of New York (Albany)
- Ratio of the number of profanities uttered by actors to the number uttered by actresses in films released in the 1960s: 10:1 - Timothy Jay, North Adams State University (North Adams, Mass.)
- Ratio in films released last year: 2:1 - Timothy Jay, North Adams State University (North Adams, Mass.)
- Percentage of male college students who believe that life is “a meaningless existential hell”: 27 - Esquire’s College Survey (N.Y.C.)
- Mandatory minimum jail sentence, in years, for possession of five grams of crack: 5 - Nkachi Taifa, ACLU (Washington)/U.S. Sentencing Commission (Washington)
- Mandatory minimum sentence for possession of five grams of cocaine: 0 - Nkachi Taifa, ACLU (Washington)/U.S. Sentencing Commission (Washington)
- Average number of sperm per cubic millimeter of an American male’s semen in 1929: 100,000,000 - Sex, Nutrition and You, by Gordon S. Tessler (Better Health Publishers, San Diego)
- Today: 60,000,000 - Sex, Nutrition and You, by Gordon S. Tessler (Better Health Publishers, San Diego)
- Percentage of American adults who say they have not had sex in the last year: 22 - National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago
- Chances that an American woman who is not a virgin has had only one sexual partner in her life: 1 in 3 - National Center for Health Statistics (Hyattsville, Md.)
- Percentage by which a dancer’s tips during fertile days exceeded those during menstruation: 92 - Joshua Tybur, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque)
- Portion of the disposable income in the United States that is spent by homosexuals: 1/5 - Newsweek
- Percentage of Americans who have little or no sympathy for “people who get AIDS from homosexual activity”: 60 - New York Times-CBS News poll
- Chances that a homosexual teenage boy will attempt suicide: 1 in 3 - Gary Remafedi, Univ. of Minnesota (Minneapolis)
- Percentage by which a man’s chances of being gay increase for every older brother he has: 33 - Ray Blanchard, University of Toronto
- Percentage of teenagers who say they want to be like their parents: 39 - American Home Economics Survey of American Teens (Washington)
- ank of self-inflicted wounds among the top injuries for which teenage girls were hospitalized in New York State in 1998: 1 - New York State Department of Health (Albany)
- Average number of times that a man cries in a month: 1.4
- That a woman cries: 5.3
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