Science Solves Another Mystery

Male science 'nerds' most likely to be virgins, says an Australian study into the sexual history of 185 students at the University of Sydney. This incredible breakthrough followed the discovery that fire was hot, and food is edible.

In the study of 16 to 25-year-olds, males in the study were less likely to have had sex as a group compared to the group of females in the sample. And no, they don't mean group sex - as memebers of that non-sexing group. Science students were also less likely to have had sex compared to their counterparts in other faculties. A psychotherapist involved said cultural factors would have played a role in the results, because many international students come to Australia to study science, and that boys also start having sex later than girls.

The work ethic of science students, and their devotion to the lab, kept them out environments where they would meet women, according to their hypothesis. Naturally, the finding have been vigorously disputed by male science graduates. "Although we may have been a little nerdier than the other students, let's just say the gender ratio wasn't as bad as engineering," one said. And for some reason, the study also charted student knowledge of chlamydia.

At the other end of the spectrum, female arts students ranked as the most sexually active. Duh.