Somewhat of a personal question....
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Somewhat of a personal question....
| Sun, 06-24-2007 - 5:20pm |
How many is alot of sexual partners for a male soon to be 22? I was talking with some friends, and it seems that I am 1 less then the top (which is a 23 year old girl, who many consider slutty)... I never really thought I slept around, mainly because just about every girl I have slept with I've had a history with prior, or was dating/turned into a relationship. Aside from one 1 night stand.
So, I lost my virginity at a normal age (16, almost 17) and will be 22 in sept. What would be considered alot? normal?
(this is just including sex though, not other things... because then my prior statement is not true...)
Edited 6/24/2007 5:21 pm ET by kerplunk237

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>I would have expected the numbers to be a little higher, still....
Thirty something never married singles are not exactly the mainstream, especially those with the viewpoint "..see nothing wrong with casual sex provided everyone is being honest and safe". Just guessing.
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Edited 6/25/2007 3:02 pm ET by fruitedplain>>>>
-- Nowhere in the article does it mention "Thirty something never married singles" being mainstream.
Some people are just so starved for attention. It's soooo obvious and sooooo sad. Sad and tired.
Speaking of tired, have a good day, FP. Au revoir, Sayonara, Arrivederci . . .
>> Nowhere in the article does it mention "Thirty something never married singles" being mainstream.
Of course it doesn't. Because they aren't.
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>>Some people are just so starved for attention. It's soooo obvious and sooooo sad. Sad and tired.
I do this very rarely but I think I am going to make an exception on this one. Hold on. I am going to strain myself.
lol.
There, just did it. Won't happen again anytime soon, I promise.
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>> Speaking of tired, have a good day, FP. Au revoir, Sayonara, Arrivederci . . .
You are tired already ? What time is it there in Memphis ? Or is it Knoxville ? Speaking of TN, wish I could be there for the Fred Thompson announcement. And if I were there, I am sure you would have shown me around town and bought me lunch.
Right....I bought into it for a while and started wondering if I was a loser...but then I looked around and realized that it was NOTHING like real life. In, well, any sense, haha.
And thanks. :)
No, there's a history here. He may be many things, but an idiot, he isn't. He knows that when he clicks on someones name that the post is directed to them. Had he wanted to address TG, he knew how to go about it. It's okay though, like I indicated, I can see what lies behind the personal attacks.
Thanks though . . . and, BTW, you are a pretty girl. It's nice to put a face with the name : )
Yeah, I remember...I guess a weakness of mine is trying to get everyone to make nice, haha. A little naive, I know.
And thanks to you, too....it is nice to put faces to names. :)
All I said was people who are in their thirties, never married and who tend to be 'active', view the world through *their* eyes -- which is expecting the rest of the (mainstream) population to be as active/promiscuous as themselves. And to this, throw in people with the mindset (and there are lots and lots of them out there) who see casual sex as pastime/ entertainment though while exercising caution, and you have a segment of the population who have had far more partners, than say the average mid to late twenties couple who married not long after college. As a somewhat more extreme example, try to imagine the shock the four characters from Sex & The City would feel upon seeing the results of this survey.
How is this a personal attack on anyone ??
Edited 6/25/2007 5:30 pm ET by fruitedplain
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Of course you aren't going to freely admit that a certain post might have been aimed in my direction. I don't know about everyone else but I don't take kindly to people insinuating that I am "out of touch", but again, you aren't going to step up and own what YOU typed so this is a moot point. I will offer you a suggestion though, why don't you try out The Battle of the Sexes board, or any other debate board for that matter. Perhaps your brand of repartee would be more appreciated there; just a suggestion.
Edited 6/25/2007 6:56 pm ET by cfk_3
I'd question the accuracy of those numbers because this study seems to have a lot of holes. I wish we could see the actual questions and resulting demographics as well as origin.
Questions that beg to be asked:
- Marital status now? Marital status last year? Marital status by gender and age group?
- What's the median age?
- When were participants most active? In their 20s? Equal spread throughout their lifetimes? Balloon at the end for the top of the age range?
- Who were the partners? LTR? ONS? Friends?
- What constitutes sex?
- How did the researchers attract participants?
To me, this quote is the most telling: "The participants have a headset on, they hear questions, they touch the screen with responses. There's no one else in the room and they can take as long as they want." First, participants have to see that there is a study, then they have to agree to it, show up and complete the survey. This is hardly a true cross-section of the population as it's a fixed geographic location or locations.
Also, what a weird statement: "Twenty-five percent of women and 17 percent of men reporting having no more than one partner of the other sex in their lifetime." So they were all heterosexuals? Or was that number just pulled because it made an interesting "fact"? Again, not a true cross-section of the population.
Anyway, to answer your original question and to echo others' reponses: number doesn't matter. History isn't as important as the now.
>>Also, what a weird statement: "Twenty-five percent of women and 17 percent of men >>reporting having no more than one partner of the other sex in their lifetime." So they were all heterosexuals? Or was that number just pulled because it made an interesting "fact"?
The male partners of the 25% of women who had only on partner, may have had multiple partners themselves. Same for the female partners of the 17% men who had only partner. A Venn diagram illustrates this best. Nothing weird.
Edited 6/25/2007 7:41 pm ET by fruitedplain
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