14% of Thompson supporters and 12% of Obama supporters claim to have sex "almost every day."
5% of Giuliani and Clinton supporters have sex that frequently.
Fifty years ago threesomes met on golf courses, gay meant "happy," and a divorce all but disqualified a man from seeking elected office. Ricky might have loved Lucy but not from the same bed, and Rob and Laura Petrie had Ritchie, but one wonders how. Sex was never discussed. It was not until the end of the 1960s, long after the invention of the pill and PLAYBOY magazine, that Americans were able to see Mr. and Mrs. Brady snuggle in the same bed. How times have changed.
It's hard to believe, but people who were newborns when Mike and Carol Brady first turned off the lights together are today's 39-year-olds. They grew up in an era when all the Friends characters, male and female, showed an interest in porn, and neither Will nor Grace felt any shame about having an active sex life. Twenty years from now, when those same people are nearly 60, they will look back on the time in which their parents were raised -- a time when books were banned, elders forbade premarital sex and talk of contraception was forbidden -- and they'll laugh in the same way we mock the modest bathing suits and caps of the pre-bikini 1940s.
Today in America there may seem to be little or no consensus on matters of policy or politics. The coarseness of the dialogue has turned politics into a contact sport and participants into gladiators. But according to PLAYBOY's exclusive nationwide Politics of Sex survey, all you have to do is change the subject from what happens on Capitol Hill to what happens between the sheets, and the political chasm is bridged by unexpectedly similar sexual views. Social and cultural issues still divide us by gender, age and race, but on that most intimate of personal issues we are surprisingly united. This suggests the rather heretical notion that if political partisanship is our national curse, sex may be the cure. Has the end of one revolution marked the beginning of another? Instead of "Make love, not war," today's slogan could be "Let's stop arguing and go to bed."
Let's look at the numbers...
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