Unbelievable!

For my Statistics class I had to read an article about adults and sex from an October 1994 issue of the New York Times. In my opinion nothing displays how we lie to others in order to appear to follow the status quo quite like this:

So, now we know what Americans do in bed. So?
The sex survey whose results were announced this week started
as a government supported survey with the title "Social and
Behavioral Aspects of Fertility-Related Behavior." It was
carefully chosen to avoid scrutiny by Senator Helms and
others. This failed and the government withdrew support for
the survey. However, it was carried out by the National
Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago
supported by private funds.
Unlike previous sex studies, whose subjects were self
selected, this study was carried out by in-person interviews
with a random sample of 3,432 men and women aged 18 to 59.
The results will be published in a book "Sex in American"
(Little, Brown and Co. with Gina Kolata as a co-author with
the investigators.)
The survey showed a marked contrast between the sex that most
people have compared to T.V. and movie images of sexual
behavior. American women typically have two sexual partners
during their life and men about six. 78% of the men and 86%
of women say they have been faithful to their spouses while
married.
The study provides more evidence that the 10% estimate for
homosexuality is not correct. Only 2.8% of men and 1.4% of
women identified themselves as "gay,". However, in the 12
largest cities this was 9% for men and 3% for women.
There was a large gap between the percentage (22.8) of the
women who said they had been forced to do something sexually
they did not want to and the percentage (2.8) of the men who
said they ever forced women into a sexual act.
One of the purposes of the study was to help in the
strategies for combatting AIDS. In this connection the study
suggested that people had sex pretty much with those they
resemble in race, religion, age, and socioeconomic level,
suggesting that AIDS would be slow in moving from groups
where it is prevalent to groups where it is not.