Sex by Numbers: Secrets and Lies

A weekly look at sex and culture, by the numbers.

It may be that you can hide things from your partner and even from yourself, but you can’t hide from the relentless and elite team of sex researchers here at EcoSalon. We found them. All of them. And they’re downright embarrassing.

1 in 10: number of single British men who admit they hide their teddy bears from their girlfriends

1 in 3: number of Americans who admit they have lied to their partners about money even after combining finances

359: number of men arrested for soliciting sex workers in a “National Day of Johns” sting on February 5th

1: “Very discreet” pilot per private flight on Flamingo Air, Cincinnati’s “most outrageous airline”

32: Age of a Georgia man charged with posting Craigslist ads under other men’s names soliciting anonymous sex

161: Number of the Senate bill that would require sex offenders to register on social media sites like Twitter

Mallory Ortberg

Mallory resides in San Francisco, California. You can catch her weekly Sex By Numbers column.