Column Facts are facts.

In honor of the recently-concluded Republican Iowa Caucuses, we’re running an extra-special Sex by Numbers this week honoring both the region and the people that made the last few months so jam-packed with sex scandals, mistresses, and trips to the Pizza Ranch.

Number of Iowan sex shops being shuttered for selling “product lines that will offend [landlord’s] clients”: 1

Age of consent in Iowa: 16

Number of “dislikes” candidate Rick Perry’s anti-gay ad has received on YouTube: 734,891 as of today, January 5

Number of collective marriages between the six primary Republican candidates: 8

Number of +1s received by spreadingsantorum.com, a website aimed at linking Rick Santorum’s name with a byproduct of anal sex: 6,483

Political sex scandals that resulted in a firing, resignation, or the end of a campaign in 2011: 5

Number of same-sex weddings performed in Iowa last year: 1,594

Number of board-certified sexologists currently practicing in Iowa: 7

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Column You better be having sex with the right people.

Gentle Readers, there are a lot of sex-related facts and factettes out there in this sexy, sex-having world of ours. But let’s get real: most of you are too busy Doing It (sex-wise) to analyze and collate them all into artisanal graph wrapping paper in time for the holidays. Why not let EcoSalon’s elite team of sexual statisticians break them down for you? Here are all the things you need to know this week:

In 1960, the odds that a British adult was cohabiting with an unmarried partner: < 1 in 100

Odds that a British adult is currently cohabiting with an unmarried partner: 1 in 6

Percentage of heterosexual-identified American men who have had recent same-sex encounters, give or take the errant unreported hummer: 3%

Percentage of lesbian and bi-identified American women who have never had a same-sex encounter: 15%

Maximum sentence for anyone convicted of entering into a same-sex marriage or civil union in Nigeria: 14 years

Number of sex offenders arrested in California this year for “child-enticing” Halloween decorations: 5

Number of pornographic shoots that have taken place in the Occupy Oakland encampment: at least 1 so far

Reduction in penile injury rates after circumcision in a South African clinical study: 39%

Number of albums titled “Sex” that have seen global release since 1993: 8

That’s everything you need to know this week! Happy sexing – and to our gay Nigerian readers, good luck, guys.

Image: Jan Tik

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