Science nerds least likely to get laid at university

by Stevie Smith - Dec 5 2008, 13:00

If you’re focused on attaining a higher education at university but are also looking to use the tantalising advantages of independent campus life to sow your wild oats, then a new report suggests it would be wise to avoid science as your chosen area of study. $Don\'t look now, but that\'s a female scientist. Image: NIOSH/Flickr.$

Don\'t look now, but that\'s a female scientist. Image: NIOSH/Flickr.

While there’s little denying the academic worth of science-based learning, an Australian study looking into the sexual habits of students at the University of Sydney has discovered that male science “nerds” are the least likely members of the student body to be having intercourse.The study, conducted across 185 students aged between 16 and 25, revealed that those studying science “were less likely to have had sex compared to their counterparts in other faculties.” Conversely, the most liberal and sexually active portion of the study turned out to be female art students.In attempting to help explain the results, psychotherapist Dr. Stephen Carroll said boys generally start having sex later than girls and that the dedicated work ethic of science students would contribute to keeping from frequenting environments more commonly associated with meeting members of the opposite sex.“Who are the people at unis that go to the rave parties and the bar?” posed Dr. Carroll in the study. “It’s not the nerdy boy science students.”According to the study results, incidences of sexually transmitted disease have also increased substantially over recent years, with chlamydia infection rates in women aged 20 to 24 jumping notably from 335 per 100,000 people in 1999 to 1,300 per 100,000 in 2007. The full study, which had a gender participation rate of 78 percent female and 22 percent male, has been published in the journal Sexual Health and calls for better education regarding sexual disease in at-risk age groups.

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TJZizDec 6th, 2008 - 10:23:14

They may not be getting laid in class-great headline by the way-but once they graduate and start getting the big bucks at startup XYZ, they shouldn't have a problem.

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JoeDec 29th, 2008 - 03:34:13

Science kids aren't the ones who will end up making big bucks. That will be the business kids and professional school faculties.

So they don't get fucked now, and they get fucked later. Unfortunately, not literally.

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MannyMar 1st, 2009 - 02:12:50

That is a totally incorrect and ignorant statement Joe. A number of science students become doctors, researchers, and the sort which are all very profitable and rewarding professions.

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