February 24, 2005
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Sociologists Map High School Romance and connect half the romantic/sexual relationships together in a chain that's more like a rural phone network than an airline hub. (Nobody in this all-white Midwestern school appears to be involved in a same sex relationship, though, which is weird. 1995 stats.) Summary here.
posted by onlyconnect (11 comments total)

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Someone else is going to find the earlier link before I do.
posted by DaShiv at 10:54 PM on February 24, 2005


http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/39152
posted by tsarfan at 10:55 PM on February 24, 2005


Incidentally, someone was involved in a same sex relationship. I'm sure it says at the old link.
posted by taursir at 10:56 PM on February 24, 2005


Check out that bad boy on the chart at 45% over and 20% down. Booya! Center of a big old hub!
posted by squirrel at 10:57 PM on February 24, 2005


Oh man, I'm sorry. I'll flag this for deletion.
posted by onlyconnect at 11:07 PM on February 24, 2005


If only "sorry" were enough, onlyconnect...
Prepare... ze BANHAMMER!
posted by squirrel at 2:49 AM on February 25, 2005


All you have to do is look for the triangle. Second chain from the right. Two girls.
posted by blacklite at 3:08 AM on February 25, 2005


Also, there's a male-male relationship at the end of one of the rightmost branches off of the big loop. 573 sexually active students, 4 admitted to having a same-sex encounter. Seems awful low, even when we compensate for those uber-conservative mid-westerners </sarcasm>. I'd wager that not all of these students were truthful in their interviews.
posted by Plutor at 5:10 AM on February 25, 2005


From the story: unlike many adult networks, there was no core group of very sexually active people at the high school
What's the basis of that statement? What does an adult network look like? Any similar maps online for "adult networks"?
posted by beagle at 5:16 AM on February 25, 2005


Someone else is going to find the IRC sex chart before I do.
posted by nebulawindphone at 5:25 AM on February 25, 2005


nebulawindphone: here you go.
posted by mrbill at 7:30 AM on February 25, 2005


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