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SUBMITTER: Brewer DD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC17351 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brewer D D DD Potterat J J JJ Garrett S B SB Muth S Q SQ Roberts J M JM Kasprzyk D D Montano D E DE Darrow W W WW
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20001001 22
One of the most reliable and perplexing findings from surveys of sexual behavior is that men report substantially more sexual partners than women do. We use data from national sex surveys and studies of prostitutes and their clients in the United States to examine sampling bias as an explanation for this disparity. We find that prostitute women are underrepresented in the national surveys. Once their undersampling and very high numbers of sexual partners are factored in, the discrepancy disappea ...[more]