SEX SURVEY: The results

The average Uni of Sheffield student has had eight sexual partners, our extensive sex survey reveals.

Sheffield comes in just below the national average of nine lifetime sexual partners, and we rank 17th in a table of 28 universities.

Universities with 100 or more respondents

A total of 12,708 students across 36 unis filled in our national questionnaire – and by golly the answers will get you hot under the collar.

Oxford Brookes students are the most prolific in the country – the polys have had it away with an average of 14 people.

Coming in second are Plymouth with 11.5 sexual partners. We’d heard it’s been wet in the south-west at the moment.

Completing the ménage à trois at the top of the table are Liverpool – the city’s students putting Suarez and Sturridge to shame with their finishing.

The guys shag more than the girls – the average male student has slept with 10 people to the average female’s 7.7. If you don’t think you can have .7 of a shag, you’ve clearly never taken a hallamer home.

A quarter of girls lie about the number of people they’ve slept with – 20% say they’ve slept with fewer than they have, whereas 5% bump their number up.

Of the 22% of boys who lie, 12% increase their number, compared to 10% who drop it.

Second year maths student Tim Smith told The Tab: “8 seems a pretty standard amount, as it’s pretty easy to pull in Sheffield. If you walk into roar or corp on a Wednesday wanting to pull and don’t there must be something seriously wrong with you!” Quite.

As with all Tab surveys, we urge you to take these results with a pinch of salt. Look out for parts two and three in the coming days, when we explore STIs and sexuality.

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