Forge Press conducted its first student survey after Christmas to find out your thoughts and experiences of student life at The University of Sheffield.
The survey had respondents from a range of year groups and subjects with over 100 students completing the questionnaire. We have broken the results down and crunched the numbers of our anonymous survey and turned it into three parts: study life, sex and relationships, and uni lifestyle.
So, want to find out more about the sex lives of your fellow saucy students? Then keep reading.
Taken, single or complicated?
Forge Press can reveal that over half of the students are single as opposed to 35% who are in a committed relationship and 9% finding themselves in a ‘complicated’ relationship, or as many of us know it, a ‘situationship’.
The majority of those who found themselves in an awkward situation were females (90%).
We were surprised to learn of three respondents (who I’m sure were all too happy that this survey is anonymous) who were still using dating apps despite being in a relationship.
The majority of students use dating apps (51.8%), with Tinder and Hinge being the most downloaded. But unfortunately students seem to use the apps more for hook-ups than the search for a relationship. Just 14% found their partner online, with most finding their through home or university connections.
However 58% of singletons on dating apps have met up with someone after meeting online, so they are clearly useful for something.
Average number of sexual partners is 6.3
According to our survey, the average University of Sheffield student has had 6.3 sexual partners.
11.5% of surveyed students stated they are virgins and almost 80% of those who have had sex lost their virginity before attending Sheffield University.
The survey found that of those who came to university a virgin, 74% have now lost it.
The top shaggers by University course are as follows:
- Aerospace engineering, with a whopping 16.6 average sexual partners. This is surprising considering general engineering students are one of the lowest ranked courses for sexual partners, with an average of 1.6. There must be something particularly sexy about space I guess?
- Psychology– 12.25 average sexual partners.
- Politics– 9.7 average sexual partners.
- Medicine– 8.7 average sexual partners.
- Music– 8.3 average sexual partners. I bet they have a great playlist for it too.
After crunching the numbers of the respondents’ favourite foundry night and sexual history, Forge Press can reveal that Grapefruit goers tend to get the most action with an average number of 5.8 sexual partners since attending university closely followed by Soul Jammers who have an average number of 5.6. Roar goers on average have had 4.3 compared to Pop Tarts lovers who have had, on average, 3.9 sexual partners since attending university.
Flatcest: yay or nay?
According to our survey, almost 14% say they have committed ‘flatcest’ (the act of having sex/getting with or entering into a relationship with your uni flatmate or housemate even though it is inevitable that you’re going to live with each other afterwards).
Sometimes that risk pays off, with one in six people committing flatcest still in a committed relationship with their partner who they met by living together.
Your sexual anecdotes
The survey ended with an opportunity to tell us your sexual anecdotes.
Falling was a big theme amongst the responses. Falling asleep, falling off the bed to having to jump and fall out of a window after a date.
Other top hits included ill-timed chunders, close calls with family members, injuries and public footpaths. Sheffield is always full of surprises and you didn’t disappoint.
