Jezebel

...because they were too busy responding to surveys.
Seriously, this says more about people who actually take surveys than it does about Harvard students. And I say that as someone who has been trained, by years of Hollywood movies, to disdain all Ivy Leaguers.

Hmm, is that why my virginity isn't selling on cragislist?

i'd like to point out that it's hard for a LOT of college students to get laid. if that isn't your main goal for college.

As the first comment, I will refrain from making jokes which references the stereotypes regarding the attractiveness (or unattractiveness) of Ivy League undergrads, and instead answer with a question: would YOU want to have sex with some pretentious pseudo-intellectual douchebag who kept jabbering on about Foucault under some dillusion that it was "erotic?" Because I would rather bone the engineer who never leaves the library.

Once again, someone actually paid someone else to do this survey. I need to find these incredibly stupid funders...

Oh wow. Half of Harvard undergrads are virgins? That's impressive. I don't think half my high school was virgins.

shit, I took so long to formulate my post, I am no longer the first post. Curses!

As a student of a highly-ranked university (whatever that means) where the sexual activity is equally dismal, I personally attribute the high number of virgins to the over-achieving ideals that are ingrained into the minds of students from age 4. They just aren't socialized to include sexual and romantic fulfillment as a priority, or as important for mental health.

I may not have a 4.0 GPA, but I do have a lot of sex. I think the trade-off is well worth it.

huh, I guess, in my pathetic attempt at being snarky, I took too long and am not the first post. Curses!

@battleaxonista: Try bidding it out to at least five bidders. But wear protection so you dont have any paternity issues, and whatnot.

Nah. Not all of them are nerdy science kids. A ton of them are douchebag trust funders, too. The skeeve repels the ladies.

Well of course, it's fucking HARVARD. They're choking to death on their own elitism. Cornell, on the other hand, is one randy place. (And I can't believe I just used the word "randy". Fuck.) Though that's probably more cause there's *nothing* to do in Ithaca.

What?! Half were virgins? Redonk! I'll put in my two cents and suggest limited time as a factor. University alone leaves precious little time for fucking, nevermind a really really difficult university.

@hortense: I was thinking the saaaaame thing.

@That_little_attention_whore: that, and they would prob reference this study as a sound reason to bone them.

@hortense: Yup. I would rather give the nerdy science guy his first lay than sleep with Mr. My Parents' Legacy Got Me In Here. (not that that's how all ILs are, just a majority of the ones at my alma mater.)

@omerhi: Cornell - hahaha always think of Andy from The Office now.

I'll take some seedy nerd underbelly lovin' any day. Those guys learn from their research!

Meh. I knew plenty of virgins in college. They weren't nerds, they weren't pledges. They mostly just didn't want to catch the Clap right before exams.

Isn't that just about the saddest demographic there is? Virgins who know lots about sex? That's like being a blind birdwatcher, no?

Also, you have to remember that those claiming to be 'virgins' have likely been poked in the patootie. A lot of my gfs used that little loophole in college to claim they remained virginal...

@MissSmithDrankYourVodka: oh, you know they would. That kinda made me think about Mallrats, where the girl is doing the study of all the guys she sleeps with...

And honestly, there's no advertisement for abstinence like meeting guys at frat parties. I didn't have sex in college either.

I bet all the guys in A'Cappella Club get laid. They should've talked to them.

@warmaiden: Hey, BYU kids have been doing that for YEARS. As far as I'm concerned, those Harvard genius are slow to catch on...

I'm an ivy league student. I am horny most of the time but these damn boys just do not have a clue.

@warmaiden: Yes, exactly. A good number of these Harvard undergrads are probably graduates of ab-only "ed;" they're taught that the definition of "sex" is penis-vagina intercourse.

@That_little_attention_whore: geniuses. Clearly I didn't attend an Ivy League institution.

I just wanna say that my brother, who graduated with a 4.5 GPA, went to Cornell and he has had 4+ girlfriends in his 3 years there. When he's single, he has hookups when he comes home for break....I'd say that's a fair amount of ass! Maybe he's just an exception to the rule?

@titania1285: Well, if it's not hard, what's the fun of it?

Honestly, I think that liberal arts colleges are probably better odds for anyone getting laid, male or female.

@HeatherNumber1: Or couldn't get their roommate(s) to leave long enough.

An ultra-bitch from my high school now writes for one of those sex magazines. I wouldn't be surprised if she can't get laid since she's such a huge bitch.

@jackimarie: I think someone else already singled out Cornell specifically as being a very randy place - hey, what else are you gonna do in Ithaca?

@hortense: Besides, with the rise of the Internet, nerdy science guys are cool... so I've been told...

@MissSmithDrankYourVodka: Hmm, but if I DO get pregnant I can get 5x the child support! Fuck getting an engineering degree!

@FourInchHeels: Well, it's on the Harvard entrance application.

@That_little_attention_whore:

Exactly. Amherst has only about 30% virgins. Not that this has helped me in any way...I'm still one of that 30%.

I think it's really easy to get laid in college, regardless of the institution. It raises the level of difficulty if you are looking for a specific type of partner.

The other thing is that the WASP "ideal" that predominates in the Ivies stipulates that you don't have sex (well, for the girls anyway) and if you do, you certainly don't enjoy it. So it's not just a nerd thing (although I'll agree that does factor in); it's also a preppie thing.

@That_little_attention_whore: Haha this is true...Ithaca, you are GORGES and people just love getting freaky in you! ;)

Hmm, as a fairly recent Ivy League grad it always seemed that most people who wanted to be having sex, were having it. Of course I knew the really studious kids who were more concerned with getting A+s than they were with getting laid. But having drank with the hipsters, the fraternity kids, the pompous intellectuals, the 'jocks' and whatnot, I got the impression that almost everyone was doing it at least somewhat. I drank a lot tho, so maybe it was just me.

@amherstgirl:

Sorry, never mind. I just remembered the statistic was that Amherst is only 30% sexually active. I guess LACs will never win against Ivies : (

@jackimarie: Or throwing themselves into you...

@amherstgirl: depends on the school, I guess. I went to an LAC on the west coast, and most people didn't seem to have any problems, once they gave in to the "Claremont Lowered Standard"

Lord. It's our reading week as of today, next week being exams. Please, no more mention of Foucault. I'm here to procrastinate. I don't need the guilt trip for you, too.

i've always found discussing foucault to be a bizarrely effective form of foreplay.

@jackimarie: Exactly. Good to have corroboration. Heh. The gorges are hella romantic, actually. If you like natural phenomena.

@That_little_attention_whore: That would be the downside of the gorges. I think we had two...three?...while I was there. Bad business.

hmm I dunno one of my best friends goes to harvard, and she get's laid often... come to think of it, I've partied there and everyone I met seemed like they would get laid a lot... I hate to say it, but perhaps some of the stereotypes about kids at ivys aren't exactly true (and this comes from someone at state school who is not big on school...)

Yet another reason why I'm glad I went to a state school...

@incurable paranoiac: Hopefully "The History of Sexuality" and not "Discipline & Punish". :)

Sorry but I think this is a silly post (no offense to Jezebel). I've known (as I'm sure everyone else has) some dangerously sexy men from Ivy League. Unless the post was tongue-in-cheek. Then just pretend I didn't write this.

nerds = virgins? not where I came from. My dungeons and dragons game sessions usually ended in orgies...

I'm not going to say anything bad about the attractiveness of Ivy League students, instead I will just suggest that everyone refrain from using hallucinogens around the Harvard/MIT campus. Not a good idea.

@gluecake: LOL!

@incurable paranoiac: Ha Ha! My sister is in grad school and cannot get enough Foucault. It's all she fucking talks about. I can always count on him to come up when she tells me about school. I'll have to tell her that this will get her the opposite of laid.

It doesn't surprise me at all that half of Harvard students are virgins. My own Ivy League roommates seem to think that organic chemistry problem sets are a perfectly acceptable way of spending Friday nights.

I'm sorry, people, but can we at least try to avoid the huge, sweeping generalizations? I went to an Ivy (well, a Seven Sister, but there was an Ivy right there) and I knew lots of people who got laid all the time and lots of people who didn't get laid at all. Oh wait, just like the rest of the world. Geez.

This is stupid, y'all. The reasons for virginity are varied and wonderful, especially when you're 18 or 19. Also, considering that so many people of my acquaintance lost their v-card during college at some point or another, perhaps this survey is just catching people at the wrong time.

Also, I know the girl on the cover of that magazine. She's exceptionally nice, and prettier in pictures than in real life, which is always sort of strange.