ARTICLE: Looking for action? Move out of the Bible Belt (Associated Press - HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com)

ARTICLE: Looking for action? Move out of the Bible Belt (Associated Press - HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com)

NEW YORK (AP) _ Single? Looking for some ... action? To the Emerald City, as fast as lightning!

You're most likely to hook up living in Seattle, and you're probably not getting any if you're living in the Bible Belt, a new survey suggests.

click here Sperling's Best Places used 33 different criteria, like male-to-female ratio, number of lingerie stores, the divorce rate (more divorcees means more booty), dog parks, coffee shops and tanning salons to rank the top cities for hooking up. Greenville, S.C. bottomed out the list.

And what exactly is ''hooking up?'' According to the survey, it depends who you ask. Of the 535 18-to-24 year olds polled, nearly 39 percent said hooking up was just kissing, while 29 percent said hooking up was having sex.

Hampton Roads' survey: Define hooking up and rate our cities.



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Either way, apparently women don't need to work too hard for it: More than three times more men than women said they'd hook up with someone after knowing them only five minutes. Nearly 19 percent of the women said they'd hooked up more than 13 times in the past month, compared to 15 percent of men. Maybe they're kissing each other?

Not to say the world's youth are a bunch of sex-obsessed hooligans. In fact, some are downright prude: nearly 30 percent said they could count on one hand the number of people they've hooked up with in their life. (If this had been an actual survey of public opinion about a serious issue of social importance, you would care that the margin of error was 2.5 percent.)

Sex columnist Anna says the poll, conducted by CyberPulse for Axe Body Spray, doesn't promote promiscuity; it's all in good fun.

''Hooking up can mean anything under the sun,'' she said. ''We're certainly not saying everyone should go out and have sex right now.''

Hm. Maybe Axe should rethink its ad campaign, then.