# How many make an orgy?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [December 31, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987 "2003-12-31T19:12:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@clbidy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clbidy)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/1 "2003-12-31T19:12:53Z")
**OK, so I won’t _die_ if I don’t know this by midnight, but it would help…**
How many people does it take to be able to legitimately call a sexual situation an _orgy_?
I say definitely more than three or four, likely five or more.
Five or more was my (unaccepted) answer.
I also insisted that a “gang bang” had to consist of one girl and three or more guys (or vice-versa should some man ever find himself in that situation).
Any help here?
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### Author:  [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/2 "2003-12-31T19:38:11Z")
5+
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### Author:  [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/3 "2003-12-31T19:39:46Z")
oops… under five and above two you have a threesome or a foursome.
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### Author:  [@CADOp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CADOp)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/4 "2003-12-31T19:41:08Z")
2 is company, 3 is a crowd, 4 is an orgy
…er…_pretends he didn’t hear himself say that_…_walks away slowly_
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### Author:  [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/5 "2003-12-31T19:41:40Z")
Regular Sex = 2 people
Three Way = 3 people
Gang Bang = 4 people
Orgy = 5+
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/6 "2003-12-31T19:45:01Z")
Usually 43, but it can be somewhat less if farm animals are present.
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### Author:  [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/7 "2003-12-31T20:05:31Z")
Any time you’re unsure of whose arm/leg/breast/fingers/genitals you’re grinding against, that’s an orgy.
Defining a gang bang has more to do, IMO, with how you’re doing what you’re doing than how many people you’re doing it with. I could definitely see an orgy taking place between a girl and three or more guys, to use the definition in the OP.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/8 "2003-12-31T20:15:08Z")
I’ve been known to have an orgy all by myself; sometimes \*\*two \*\*is a crowd.
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### Author:  [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/9 "2003-12-31T20:22:39Z")
Two girls and a guy: Menage a tois
Two guys (or more) and one girl: gangbang
Two of each, or three girls and a guy: foursome
Five or more total, including at least two girls: orgy
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### Author:  [@ski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ski)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/10 "2003-12-31T20:23:51Z")
None of you are _quite_ right. 🙂
An orgy requires a minimum of more than one person of each gender - meaning at least 2 guys and 2 girls, so a minimum of four. There must be at least four so nobody feels left out if two of the people pair up for a while. An event with one girl but multiple guys is a “gang bang”, unless there are only 2 guys, then it’s just a threesome.
Unless of course it’s Tuesday, and then you’ve got a Royal Fizzbin.
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/11 "2003-12-31T20:24:49Z")
Cites?
😃
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### Author:  [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/12 "2003-12-31T20:30:41Z")
I don’t think **Ski** is right because you could have an all male or all female orgy:)
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/13 "2003-12-31T20:38:22Z")
Four people is a fourgy.
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### Author:  [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/14 "2003-12-31T20:45:59Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by bannerrefugee \*
> \*\*I don’t think **Ski** is right because you could have an all male or all female orgy:) \*\*
I don’t think those fit the traditional definition of orgy. I think it would work only if you qualify it with “Lesbian orgy” or “Gay orgy”.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/15 "2003-12-31T20:54:22Z")
[Orgy.](http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=orgy)
Sorry, folks. Nothing about numbers.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/16 "2003-12-31T21:47:46Z")
I’m having real difficulty visualizing this. Little help?
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/17 "2003-12-31T22:31:40Z")
If reference to disctionaries told us everything about the connotations of words, it would be a boring language indeed. Fortunately, they don’t and it isn’t.
I’d say **ski** got it right – an orgy generally requires at least five including more than one person of each sex. If numbers increase, the ratio of men to women has to hover somewhere near equality. I don’t feel myself qualified to say exactly where the line is, but the point is that _balance_ is important.
–Cliffy
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### Author:  [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/18 "2003-12-31T22:41:05Z")
That’s true, 20 guys and two girls is just another kind of gangbang.
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### Author:  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/19 "2004-01-01T00:26:29Z")
Enough guys and girls (note the plurality) where nobody is left waiting. 😃
If someone is hanging around looking for an orifice or genital to jump into the fray, it ain’t an orgy.
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### Author:  [@Thrillhouse15](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thrillhouse15)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-make-an-orgy/221987/20 "2004-01-01T01:34:10Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Munch \*
> \*\*I’m having real difficulty visualizing this. Little help? \*\*
Try googling “orgy.” You _might_ find a website or two that will help you figure out what the OP means 🙂
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