I was given a Purity Test during my first week at Student House, where I lived at MIT. Freshman score: 16%. Junior score: 34%.  2026: 38% (I was not being honest, either in 1972 or 2026)

This is the Purity Test I took, apparently popular at MIT. It’s hard to offer sample questions in a PG 17-rated column (and I may have failed) but here are some samples:

• Gone through the motions of sexual intercourse while fully clothed?
• Had an erection? (clitoral counts)
• Had a date?
• Kissed someone other than your mother?
• Petted below the shoulders?
• Had someone else’s hand under your skirt/down your pants?
• Had two sexual encounters with two different people within a twelve-hour period?
• Had an orgasm?
• Masturbated?
• Had sex with more than one person in the same night? (night is defined as 6pm-6am)
• Had sex more than three times in the same night? (not necessarily with the same person)
• Participated in a threesome? (all three parties must actually be participating; just watching doesn’t count)

Used a sexual aid or appliance?
Remember this is just a sample.