# How many partners have you had? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 1, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192 "2003-02-01T23:55:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/21 "2003-02-02T07:22:07Z")
1. 1 or 3, depending on definitions 2. Male 3. 20 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/22 "2003-02-02T08:11:22Z")
1. 10 or 11 2. female 3. 31 in 2 weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Blunty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Captain\_Blunty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Blunty)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/23 "2003-02-02T09:09:53Z")
1. 17 2. female 3. 21 ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/24 "2003-02-02T10:40:57Z")
Ahem. (1) I’d rather not give numbers, but I’ll say that, **Eutychus** ’s joke aside, I’m, ah, “winning” so far. [sub]Man, I hope my mother doesn’t see this.[/sub] (2) Male. And I’m 31, even though that wasn’t asked. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/25 "2003-02-02T10:46:06Z")
1- 9. Ironically, 5 of them were after I was married. Hehehe… 2- Male. c- 28. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/26 "2003-02-02T11:23:59Z")
Note on definitions: “sexual intercourse” includes hand jobs and oral sex. The word for the type of sexual intercourse you may be thinking of is “coitus”: the penis penetrating the vagina. ---
**Author:** ![Smashed\_Ice\_Cream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Smashed\_Ice\_Cream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smashed_Ice_Cream)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/27 "2003-02-02T11:27:46Z")
1. 3 actual intercourse and 1 “damn near” 2. Female 3. I’m 30 ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/28 "2003-02-02T11:31:48Z")
1. 9-12 depending on definition 2. Female 3. Sexually active for 10 years (that seems a better indicator than just an age, gives some context IMO) ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/29 "2003-02-02T11:36:27Z")
1. One 2. Female 3. 29 ---
**Author:** ![minega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@minega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minega)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/30 "2003-02-02T11:51:04Z")
I am male, have had one partner and after three years, still no sex…im 20…gah!!!please pray for me. PS; To clear things up ,she is Muslim so my chances are slim. ---
**Author:** ![Flashpaper\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Flashpaper\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flashpaper_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/31 "2003-02-02T12:44:26Z")
1. 46 2. Female 3. 35 ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/32 "2003-02-02T13:33:29Z")
1. 17 2. Male 3. 38 ---
**Author:** ![Texican](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ebca7d/32.png) [@Texican](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Texican)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/33 "2003-02-02T13:44:49Z")
1. close to a hundred. I once made a list and got it to 86 that I could remember. I only counted those that I actually had an orgasm with. That was 10 years ago when I was around 26 years old and I’ve added to the total since then. 2)male I pretty much dedicated my existence from the age of 15 to 25 to the hunt for willing females. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/34 "2003-02-02T13:52:01Z")
1. no freakin’ idea, but I think I could give **jackelope** a run for his money (I was an active alcoholic throughout my 20s) 2. female 3. 48 ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/35 "2003-02-02T14:39:47Z")
1. 14 or somewhere near 30 depending on what you count as intimate. 2)i’m female 1. i’m 20. i’ve been sexually active for 4 years and monogamous for 18 months. which means all but one of the above were in the space of 2 1/2 years. ---
**Author:** ![dragongirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dragongirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragongirl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/36 "2003-02-02T14:45:00Z")
1. 4 if you’re talking about intercourse, 14 if you’re talking about other stuff. But I’ve been with the same man exclusively for 13 years. 2. Female 3. I’m 30 years old. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/37 "2003-02-02T15:32:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Walloon \* > \*\*Note on definitions: “sexual intercourse” includes hand jobs and oral sex. The word for the type of sexual intercourse you may be thinking of is “coitus”: the penis penetrating the vagina. \*\* Am I the only one who has never gotten a guy off that I wasn’t having sex with at the time? [not necessarily at that moment, but in the relationship] ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/38 "2003-02-02T15:49:16Z")
1. 7 guys 2. female 3. 20 _OpalCat_I have done that actually. It was an… interesting experience. (He did later become one of the 7 but that was a bit later) ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/39 "2003-02-02T15:52:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\*Am I the only one who has never gotten a guy off that I wasn’t having sex with at the time? [not necessarily at that moment, but in the relationship] \*\* Considering some of the numbers here, I think it’s safe to say that “relationship” might be a bit of an overstatement. 😉 But yeah, I have–I think that’s where a lot of the ranges are coming from, instead of just flat numbers. ---
**Author:** ![jack\_ss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jack\_ss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jack_ss)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192/40 "2003-02-02T16:23:04Z")
1. Somewhere around 80. I had a wild booze & drug fueled 80s too. 2. Hetero Male 3. 1. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-partners-have-you-had/152192.md?page=3)