ex lives to strangers. Subjects were required to be English speaking, articulate, and able to recall details of their first sexual experience following the breakup of their long-term monogamous relationship.
Rich decided that the appropriate number of subjects would be achieved when redundancy occurred, which in this case was seven women (27). This is an extremely small number of participants for any meaningful study, particularly since she states that as of the 1994 Census, there were over 7 million divorced women between the ages of 35 and 65 in the United States, giving her less than a one in a million chance of obtaining the ôaverageö womanÆs experience. The breakdown of her subjects was: 3 in their mid- to late-30s, 3 in their 40s, and 1 age 52; 3 Catholic, 2 Jewish, 1 Luthe
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