11/84Number of American children conceived with donated sperm and/or carried to term by surrogate mothers: 250,000
8/84Percentage of the sexual acts depicted or referred to on prime-time TV that are between married partners: 6
1/86Percentage of American men who say they enjoy sex more than money: 47
Percentage of American women who say this: 26
3/86Percentage of adults who say they were told the facts of life by their mother: 21
5/86Chances that a female graduate student in psychology has had sex with one of her professors: 1 in 6
Percentage of West Germans who say this: 52
9/86Percentage of teenagers’ favorite songs that they say are about sex, violence, satanism, or drugs: 7
Percentage they say are about love: 26
3/87Percentage of French men who say they would like to see Princess Stephanie pose nude in a magazine: 28
3/87Rank of the outdoors and trains among the unconventional places in which Canadians say they’ve had sex: 1,2
4/87Rank of Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Vogue among the best-selling magazines in college bookstores: 1,2,3
10/88Number of blind dates former Education Secretary William Bennett had with Janis Joplin: 1
12/88Percentage of doctors who say they would allow a woman to choose a sperm donor based on his religion: 56
2/88Percentage of married men and women who say they were worried about sex on their wedding night: 18
4/88Average number of sexual innuendos broadcast on television each hour during prime time: 9
11/89Percentage of Americans who say that “lack of opportunity due to poverty” is a main cause of teenage violence: 50
Percentage who say that “rock music lyrics that glorify sex and violence” are a main cause of teenage violence: 52
3/89Number of babies conceived in the United States last year with sperm from an anonymous donor: 30,000
3/89Average number of calories burned during an “extremely passionate” one-minute kiss: 26
Number of calories in a Hershey’s Kiss: 25
1/90Rank of sex, crime, and the family, among the topics most frequently discussed on Oprah and Geraldo: 1,2,3
12/90Price, in zlotys, of a “saddle of love” from Intersex, a newly opened sexual-novelty shop in Warsaw: 724,000
10/91Percentage of Canadians who say they have “never thought about” having sex with a co-worker: 60
10/91Percentage of American men who say they have fantasized about having sex with a fictional TV character: 30
12/91Percentage of American men who say they would rather have sex with Betty Rubble than Wilma Flintstone: 58
7/91Number of Czechs who have joined the Independent Erotic Initiative Party since its establishment last year: 4,000
8/91Number of cigarette butts collected on U.S. beaches during the 1990 National Beach Cleanup: 531,828
10/92Number of pages in Doubleday’s new 7,035-page, six-volume Bible dictionary that are devoted to sex and humor: 10
10/92Percentage change, since Anita Hill’s testimony last fall, in sexual harassment complaints filed with the EEOC: +45
11/92Price of an eight-week course in striptease at Moscow’s Taif School of Erotic Dance, in rubles: 3,000
6/92Percentage of American fathers who say their children should have “more sexual freedom” than they had as teenagers: 15
7/92Percentage of female college students who say they would rather have sex with Harry Connick Jr. than Axl Rose: 76
8/92Percentage of French women who do not view being asked to undress for a job interview as sexual harassment: 20
5/93Percentage of female congressional staffers who say they have been sexually harassed by a congressman: 11
8/93Percentage of Americans describing themselves as “ultra-liberal” who consider S&M “an acceptable sexual practice”: 6
Percentage of Americans describing themselves as “ultra-conservative” who say this: 18
9/93Percentage change, since 1991, in the number of on-the-job sexual-harassment complaints filed with the E.E.O.C.: +51
2/94Amount a California man won last year after suing his wife for feigning sexual attraction to him for 13 years: $242,000
10/95Price of a 4-ounce bottle of shampoo containing a chemical cloned from human sperm, from a Beverly Hills boutique: $25
3/95Percentage of American teenagers who cite “not being in love” as the best reason not to have sex: 4
12/96Number of people on the Omaha, Nebraska, Public Library’s waiting list to check out Madonna’s book Sex: 230
3/96Percentage of British Members of Parliament who believe that stress is reducing their interest in sex: 38
4/96Price paid for 6 vials of frozen sperm last April at a benefit auction for a Boston lesbian and gay health center: $825
7/96Chances that a Normal, Illinois, Mitsubishi worker who the E.E.O.C. believes was sexually harassed has filed suit: 1 in 7
Percentage of the plaintiffs whose gynecological and psychological medical records Mitsubishi has since requested: 100
7/96Cost per minute to hear the Bill of Rights read over the phone “in a provocative manner” by a woman named Bambi: $1.98
7/96Seating capacity of the Ménage à Trois Chair, from Kinky Joe’s Erotic Furniture of New York City: 5
9/96Price a Paris boutique charges for an ounce of Yin Shen White Tea, “hand-picked by Chinese virgins”: $90
1/97Percentage of poor, urban fifth-graders in a University of Michigan study who say that they smoke cigarettes: 6
3/97Number of sex offenders’ addresses registered with New Jersey police since the passage of Megan’s law: 3,532
11/98Ratio of the number of “cigar” references in Kenneth Starr’s report to the number of “Whitewater” references: 9:1
Fine that the report’s Internet posting might have brought if 1996’s Communications Decency Act had become law: $250,000
11/98Number of “I Slept with Kenneth Starr” bumper stickers sold by a Little Rock gift shop since last April: 990
11/98Chance that a fee-for-service health-insurance plan’s prescription coverage includes oral contraceptives: 1 in 3
11/98Months after publicly calling the President a “scumbag” last April that Rep. Dan Burton admitted his own adultery: 4
12/98Maximum amount that the Canadian government has agreed to spend on a soldier’s sex-change operation: $40,000
2/98Number of calls made last October to 888-HARASS-U, the presidential-sexual-harassment hot line: 4,195
4/98Length, in feet, of a wooden penis carried through the streets of Komaki, Japan, during a spring fertility ceremony: 8.3
Chance that an American woman believes this: 1 in 9
4/98Months after Bill Clinton’s inauguration that heterosexual fellatio was legalized in Washington, D.C.: 4
Number of states in which the practice is still illegal: 14
5/98Chance that an American believes Madeleine Albright has alleged a sexual relationship with the President: 1 in 200
7/98Chance that an impotence drug up for approval by the FDA lists yawning as a side effect: 1 in 3
4/99Settlement paid 3 female federal inmates last year after guards sold them as sex slaves to male prisoners: $500,000
6/99Amount New York’s Department of Corrections spent last year on estrogen for 61 inmates who want a sex change: $9,000
7/99Height, in feet, of a scarlet “A” a Sunnyside, Wash., woman put in her family’s yard last fall to protest her father’s adultery: 7
1/00Number of pages accumulated in the FBI’s Sex Deviates file by the time the program was abandoned in 1977: 330,000
11/00Price of a copulating turkey decoy, designed to flush fowl inflamed with territorial jealousy: $49.99
1/01Average annual number of male clients served in America in 1999 by each female prostitute: 694
4/01Chance that a TV character engaging in sexual intercourse during the 1997-98 season was a teenager: 1 in 33
Chance last season: 1 in 11
4/01Percentage of U.S. high school sex-ed teachers who say that abstinence is the only birth-control method they cover: 23
5/01Estimated number of “crush films” involving live rodents and high-heeled women seized from a New York man in 1999: 70
6/01Performance of Ricky Martin in bed, on a scale of one to ten, according to his new girlfriend: 20
6/01Number of PBS stations that aired a program called “Magnificent Lovemaking” during March fund-raising: 88
9/01Percentage of Men’s Health readers who say they have learned most of what they know about sex from television: 18
4/02Number of George H.W. Bush’s five adult grandchildren who have been arrested: 3
Number who avoided charges after being forgiven by a girlfriend for breaking into her house: 1
2/03Percentage by which the average sperm count of an urban U.S. male exceeds that of a rural U.S. male: 60
3/03Last date on which instructions for condom use appeared on the federal government’s online condom fact sheet: 6/20/01
7/03Estimated amount spent on lap dances in Las Vegas each year: $25,000,000
7/04Percentage by which average earnings of a major U.S. film with no sex in 2003 exceeded those of one with graphic sex: 120
10/05Number of U.S. states where bestiality is legal: 20
11/05Number of erotic Harry Potter fan-fiction stories posted on a website run by an Illinois woman: 1,750
Average number of hits the site receives each day: 198,000
12/05Days after Katrina hit that the first strip club was reopened in New Orleans: 20
Percentage of their income from “dollar dances” that its strippers are donating to relief efforts: 100
4/05Average age of a Bay Area career-day audience this year to which a speaker touted stripping as a profession: 13
4/05Estimated number of young Christians in 1995 who had pledged to wait until marriage for sex: 2,500,000
Estimated percentage who waited: 12
4/05Price a California company charges for a chain-mail condom: $75
5/05Percentage of Filipino couples who “do not know how pregnancy happens,” according to the country’s health minister: 30
6/05Percentage change since 1994 in treatment for male infertility and erectile dysfunction in Shanghai: +100
8/05Fine levied last year on a restaurant in southwest China for serving sushi atop naked women: $242
8/05Percentage of the world’s cell phone users who say they have interrupted sex to answer a call: 14
12/06Percentage of women who have an orgasm during sex with a man, according to an Australian study: 69
Percentage who do during sex with another woman: 76
2/06Monthly fee to add a “ virtual girlfriend ” game to an Ericsson mobile phone: $5
3/06Number of half-siblings who have found each other on a website for children of anonymous sperm donors: 1,316
9/06Minimum amount that an Arkansas mayor has discounted a prostitute’s city water bill since 2004 in exchange for sex: $790
9/06Number of convictions that have been handed down so far under India’s 1996 law to ban sex-determination tests: 1
9/06Age at which consensual sex should be legal, according to the platform of a new political party of Dutch pedophiles: 12
9/06Year by which humans will “be having sex with robots,” according to the head of the European Robotics Research Network: 2011
9/06Months that an Idaho man has checked out his library’s copy of The Joy of Gay Sex, to prevent others from seeing it: 7
Number of additional copies that the library has received unsolicited since this was first reported: 7
10/07Total amount that U.S. Catholic dioceses have paid out since 2002 in child sex-abuse settlements: $1,073,000,000
10/07Number of different reasons for having sex, as identified this year in a University of Texas study: 237
2/07Chances that a hip-hop fan has had five or more sexual partners in the last five years, according to a U.K. study: 2 in 5
Chance that a country-music fan has: 1 in 67
2/07Average number of times an adult worldwide has sex each year, according to self-reporting in polls: 103
3/07Portion of female college students and graduates who say attending Spring Break results in “increased sexual activity”: 3/4
8/07Cost per minute last spring for callers to the Vienna public library to have literary erotica read to them: 49¢
11/08Number of scenes of or references to sex between a married couple shown during an average week of NBC programming: 1
12/08Number of U.S. postage stamps printed in June whose packaging mistakenly listed a phone-sex number: 4,000,000
Telephone number that was printed in place of 1-800-STAMP-24, the number for reordering: 1-800-TRAMP-24
3/08Chance that a British man admits to fantasizing about his favorite sports team during sex: 1 in 9
5/08Portion of all sex-change surgery costs for the poor that the government of Iran now covers: 1/3
5/08Number of different e-cards that a nonprofit website offers for informing sexual partners of their exposure to an STD: 7
Ratio of the number of scabies cards sent so far to the number of chlamydia cards: 2:1
6/08Chance that a French man aged 18 to 24 is “uninterested in sex,” according to a government study: 1 in 5
6/08Percentage of American men with a net worth of at least $20 million who admit to having paid for sex: 34
9/08Projected amount that same-sex weddings will add to California’s economy during the next three years: $684,000,000
2/09Standard hourly rate at Manhattan’s Liberty Inn, whose slogan is “Your Rendezvous for Romance”: $30