Those crazy Brits are at it again, coming off all serious and stuffy and then shocking the crap out of us by coming out with a sex calculator that announces they each average 2.3 million sexual partners in their lifetimes. That’s a lot of sex. No wonder Hugh Grant went shopping for prostitutes once he got to America, he was having withdrawal.
Okay, so the number is intentionally blown up in an effort to spread awareness and encourage young people to be more responsible with their sexual selves by always being safe, getting regular health screenings, and ideally abstaining from jumping everyone and anyone. But the interesting part is that the math really does add up. It’s based on the common principle that whenever you have sex with a new person it’s like you’re having sex not only with them but with all their previous partners also. Plus all those peoples’ previous partners. And their partners. And so on and so on. The calculator goes back and multiplies like that for six generations (I don’t know if that makes sense, necessarily) before it spits out your obnoxiously high, heart-attack inducing number.
Wanna know yours? Calculate your indirect sexual partner number here and be warned: it won’t be pretty.
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Comments
Paul
September 23rd, 2009 - 3:07:53 PM
I got a total of 154,250 partners. I dunno, I agree with the concept here, and certainly see it's merit, but in my case this just doesn't ring true. I've only slept with one woman and she's only slept with three men before me. One of the men, she was the first for, the other two I have no idea. So basically, even if the other two had a few options - and you drag it out to six-degrees of separation - you just don't get anywhere near 154,000. My two cents.