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Jews Do It More

Says decade-old study still worth bragging about

by
Marc Tracy
July 23, 2010
Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli.(Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)
Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli.(Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)

This is science, people! Well, okay, science from 1998 rehashed for a Daily Beast listicle, but still! Jews and agnostics (and look, who do you think invented doubt?) have 20 percent more sex than the average. (Baptists are also above average, albeit less so; Lutherans and Presbyterians, the poor schmucks, apparently have less sex.) Also, according to another study (this one published last year), observant married Jewish women are more than twice as likely as average married women to have sex three to six times per week, which, depending on whether you’re Annie or Alvy, is “constantly” or “hardly ever.”

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.