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A counter-example: more intelligent people are more likely to approve of pre-marital sex, but less likely to have it. I'm a counter-example to that, perhaps related to a highly religious formative period (Robin himself once belonged to a "cult", and might generalize from that experience or milieu) whereas intelligent people tend to be irreligious and may have been so from an earlier age.

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Consider people in sexless marriages. Wouldn’t sex be far for them? Do you think they’d be particularly idealistic about it?

No, sex is a "near" issue in this case. No sex is the couples near mode way of dealing with sex.

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