How many sex partners have you had?

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shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
The most uncomfortable question in every relationship: what's your number? As in, how many people have you slept with? To find out the average number of sexual partners a person has had as well as the feelings surrounding the subject, a recent study surveyed over 2,000 people in the US and Europe. Turns out, the average American has had 7.2 partners while the average European has had 6.2. On top of the median counts, America's highs and lows ranged at much more drastic extremes, from 2.6 (Utah) to 15.7 (Louisiana), vs. Europe's 5.4 (Italy) to 7.0 (UK).

The survey also asked the participants at what number they considered someone to be "too promiscuous." Women answered 15.2 while men said 14; both, however, closely agreed on the "ideal number" of partners for someone to have in their lifetime at 7.5 (women) and 7.5 (men). Lastly, when asked what count they thought of as "too sexually conservative," France, Portugal, the US, the UK, and Italy all reported two. Austria was the clear outlier, saying that seven sexual partners was prudish. OK, Austria!

Where does your number fall?

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PrimetimeSchein
7 years ago
I would say around 20
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Mate27
7 years ago
I try to play the alphabet game with my history. I go from A to Z trying to remember girls I've been with and their names. Too many that start with A's and J's, but so far no O's or X's. Yesenia was the one Y I remembered, and was surprised at how few letters remain open.
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vincemichaels
7 years ago
Sheesh, let's see, Gwen, and Gwen, and several others along the way. I'll have to think about numbers. I know you've had several, shadowcat.
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twentyfive
7 years ago
I plead the fifth.
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Call.Me.Ishmael
7 years ago
I think it's safe to say that most of the guys on this site are well above the national and even world averages.

Well... LarryFisherman...
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ATACdawg
7 years ago
7.5? Damn. I've got some serious catching up to do!!!! ;-)
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doctorevil
7 years ago
Depends. Are we using Bill Clinton's definition of sex, or everyone else's definition?
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vincemichaels
7 years ago
I wouldn't know, troll vm, I don't have sex with either of those 2 you allude to. Look up that word in a dictionary. Oh wait, you don't even know what that is, Douchester/txtittydumbass.
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ppwh
7 years ago
Something like how many licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop. Since I didn't keep track, I will just call it three.
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MrDeuce
7 years ago
This is an interesting subject that I find awkward to discuss. Since my own number is quite low and the numbers for my stripper friends tend to be very high, I choose not to talk with them about "what's your number". For example, I know, just from listening attentively to my ATF ramble on about the guys she's fucked since she was 12 (!), that her number is at least 15.
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ppwh
7 years ago
I have had the number conversation three times (excluding virgins which could be counted as a disclosed zero) and I don't think it ever went down very well.

The first time, I had asked a nympho girlfriend who was like "ummmm... a lot of them were stupid and I don't even want to think about it." Second time was when a new gf confronted me after a not-so-attractive girl had outed me as having slept with her years prior, and the new gf demanded that I enumerate for her, which basically doomed the relationship. The third time, a stripper friend who I think was either sizing me up as a potential boyfriend or OTC partner was asking, and I told her that I hadn't been keeping track. She didn't seem very happy with that answer, but reported back that she had talked to another grown man and had gotten a similar answer.

The thing about women's counts is the 3X rule -
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comm…

I drink a lot less beer per week when I'm filling out forms at the doctor's office compared to the bar of a strip club, so I can kind of relate.
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Uprightcitizen
7 years ago
Prior to my foray into the world of strippers I would have said my number would have been like 12-15 with a long ~18 year hiatus with one partner during marriage. At this time, well...I would be considered as promiscuous and dont even want to count.
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Dougster
7 years ago
I remember reading one of those surveys back when I was in college. The 3x rule makes sense. Because it matched the results in the survey: supposedly men have 3x times as many partners on average as women. The funny thing though is that mathematically the averages have to be the same. So women are lying their numbers even in anonymous surveys.
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joc13
7 years ago
Hell, I have a count of 8 just from my last attempt at the "12 Lays of Christmas" challenge. Actually, covered 10 days, but settled for 2 repeats, so even if I had managed all 12 days there would have been an asterisk on the entry.
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georgmicrodong
7 years ago
If strippers and other hookers don't count, then my number is 2. If they count, my number is well above those cited.
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joc13
7 years ago
A potential corollary to the 3X rule:

A woman only remembers (admits) having sex with someone if she's had sex with them 3 or more times.

The one night stands just get blocked out.

The male corollary is:
If I touched your boobs or pussy, I had sex with you. Yep, you're going on my list.
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DoctorPhil
7 years ago
@call.me.ishmael "I think it's safe to say that most of the guys on this site are well above the national and even world averages. Well... LarryFisherman..."

let's not forget about san_jose_guy. he's another zero partner count bringing the average down
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shadowcat
7 years ago
If you define sex as intercourse and not counting sex workers and if my memory is still good, I cum up with 10. All prior to my 27 year marriage.
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TheeOSU
7 years ago
I used to keep track but lost count a few years ago. I'd say probably around 100 with a close to 50/50 split between P4P and freebies, and about 25% of them multiple times, one girlfriend alone hundreds of times. I'm talking actual penetration, not boobie touching. :D
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Lurker_X
7 years ago
If grinding off with hostess girls in the 1990s counts as sex, then I can feel better about my total. I liked those standing-dance grinds... those gave me a headrush... as well as the wall grinds... or I'd lean on the wall and let her grind me.... Ah the memories.
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s275ironman
7 years ago
I stopped keeping count many years ago, but I think my current number stands somewhere between 10-15.
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TheeOSU
7 years ago
I was thinking that perhaps I should clarify my hundreds of times comment with one GF. We were together for 2 years and we fucked all the time, all we did was get high and fuck so 200 times is not out of the realm of possibility. :D
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Jascoi
7 years ago
God only knows... hundreds.
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Corvus
7 years ago
Damn, looks like I'm a certified slut... Even before strippers
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jackslash
7 years ago
If you don't count strippers, I'm as pure as the driven snow. If you do count strippers, I'm sluttier than the Whore of Babylon.
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joc13
7 years ago
@shadowcat "
If you define sex as intercourse and not counting sex workers"

Well, that would definitely cut it down some, but there was still at least 8 during Rush Week 1985. No repeats that time. ;-)
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Bj99
7 years ago
11 for me. Just one past the big 10 lol.
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MrDeuce
7 years ago
I like jackslash's answer:
"If you don't count strippers, I'm as pure as the driven snow. If you do count strippers, I'm sluttier than the Whore of Babylon."

If you define sex as intercourse, my count is minuscule. If, however, blowjobs count as sex, then I'm a total man-whore. Hurray for Bill Clinton's definition of sex!
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Electronman
7 years ago
15-20 (per year)--- that's my goal.
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rh48hr
7 years ago
Prior to when I starting mongering 5. But I was in two long term relationships and was faithful. Since my mongering started, this number has jumped exponentially.
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georgmicrodong
7 years ago
I started thinking back, and stopped counting at 50.
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flagooner
7 years ago
I have never considered myself a womanizer at all, but 7.2 sounds awfully low, even if I don't count each hand as distinct partners.
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tumblingdice
7 years ago
Well over 500.I'm tall,blue eyed,moneyed and sexy as a motherfucker.I once fucked a Milf and she had a heartattack and died,I was questioned for over ten hours by cops.Nowadays my concubines come from PP and PW Cola.You do realize they are all lying,thieving whores.
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shailynn
7 years ago
I'm a whore. Take the sex I didn't actually pay for and I'm still a whore. I remember when my wife asked me how many people I had sex with (when we were dating in college) and I told her the truth, she started to cry.

I like the real logical rule of 4.

If a woman says she had sex with "x" number of men, add 4 to the number she gives.

If a man says he had sex with "x" number of women, subtract 4 from the number he gives.
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gawker
7 years ago
I kept count from high school through college ( about 12), then got married and only had one affair for my first 35 years of marriage, then started traveling and over 10 years probably 40 escorts, then discovered strippers and have had FS with my ATF about 300 times in 8 years and have fucked about 10 other strippers. Orval's another story.
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aroundtown
7 years ago
Just had this discussion with some dancers that are hanging out and two say over 400-500 men and one says three boyfriends and about 50 customers.
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LecherousMonk
7 years ago
With compensation: 20-30
Without compensation: 0.

FML
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IHearVoices
7 years ago
Somewhere in the low-mid 40s, with maybe 8 of them being 'professionals'.
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ppwh
7 years ago
@LecherousMonk, no worries, man. Matthew Desp is right there with you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SulD2NSq…
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Clubber
7 years ago
sc,

So much depends on the term "sex partner" and what constitutes "sex".
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warhawks
7 years ago
If anything over 14 is considered promiscuous....

Let's just say I'd have to be considered promiscuous times infinity...

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Cashman1234
7 years ago
It is what it is... and I have no idea of what my number is.

I've woken up in too many places and had no idea what happened before I got there - so I'm unable to confirm or deny what occurred.
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