By the numbers: Who has the most sex?

3. Jews and agnostics are 20 percent more sexually active than Catholics and Protestants.

The study that produced this statistic also found that Baptists have slightly more sex than the national average, while “Presbyterians and Lutherans are slightly below average.” “There’s more shame and guilt with the Christian religions,” says Herbenick, who is also the author of Because It Feels Good: A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Pleasure and Satisfaction. “The Jewish religion tends to be more permissive about sexuality.” Another study found that over twice as many observant married Jewish women reported having sex three to six times per week as married women in general…

8. People who rarely go to church have 31 percent more sex than people who regularly go to church.

“Extremely devout people are also less likely to masturbate and use vibrators,” Herbenick says. The lead author of the study that produced this statistic writes, “Religion exercises a traditional restraint on sexual behavior. Those who attend church regularly are less likely to a) become sexually active, b) have multiple and casual partners, and c) among the married, have sexual partners other than their spouses.”