Give your attention to the map below. It is a unique document that details the sexual intrigues of your average American high school, in this case Jefferson High School.

Much as you might suspect it is a TV soap, this is a real school and it makes your average TV soap look a bit bland. The detail of these sexual goings on are the result of an 18 month study by James Moody who is professor of sociology at Ohio State University.

Professor Jim, who skillfully dodged the label of "dirty old man" by being too young for it to apply, took on the 18 month task of documenting the sexual proclivities of a typical American high school.

The results will be of no surprise to your average medical practitioner at the local sexual health centre but the rest of you may be amused/disturbed/envious of the fact that more than half of those students who were sexually active were linked in one large network. Of course most students only had one, two or maybe three partners, it is just that they shared them with everyone else.

It is interesting to observe the number of girls that had large clusters of attendant males, something that appears not so common in the reverse. Take for example the cluster in the upper right where one girl has six boys all have whom only have her or possibly one other girl. Seems to be a tick for the sexual emancipation of American school girls does it not?

Only one of the boys could match this effort and he does not appear to command the fidelity from his partners that some of the girls could muster.

Read more of Prof. Jim's work here.