Here’s an interesting one. I’ve had one direct partner and my total is ~747,000. He’s had more direct partners and his number is ~345,000 :dubious:
Yeah, Giltathriel, it’s telling me 52,000-odd. I’ve had one sexual partner, my wife, and we’ve been married for 38 years. She had one sexual partner before she met me, back in 1970. I had none. And yet, 52,000 ?
4,908,248
Damn. I’m feeling rather uncomfortable with myself right about now.
I think they just need to be reassured about the kitten…
It’s based on the assumption that your partner had the mean or median number of sexual partners for someone of that age, and that their partners did, etc. These assumptions=stupid :).
Also, the news coverage of this often includes some version of the sentence"
“On average, British men claim to have directly slept with nine partners each while women say they have had 6.3 partners, the pharmacy chain said.”
This makes me concerned that they used means instead of medians, which would be really, really stupid.
Shit, I could clean my kitchen in the time it would take for me to remember all of that and enter that… maybe even the living room, too…
Fewer than that.
Well, I’ve only had one sex partner and she’s olny had one sex partner…why do I get over 100,00o indirect partners!?
Take a lot of dumps in public restrooms?
OMG! DeathLlama has been BUSY. According to this, I have had 2,111,927 direct and indirect partners.
DeathLlama is my only direct partner. And FTR, I am his only direct partner.
Although, apparently I am missing out on some pretty wild parties.
Yeah, unless my missus is lying to me, we’ve only been with each other. And my number was something like 160,000. Kind of a dumb calculator. You’d almost think they were trying to frighten you into buying something…
15,911,253
I really need to take a shower.
Yeah, me too. I knew I was in trouble when I saw the last choice was “over 50.” In what period of time, a week?
Because her other partner was a slut.
Do you think any of them were Michael Jackson?
246,663
Of course all of my partners were active with other people (before me) before AIDS or herpes.
What a bizarro little form. Because my husband and I are 35, my results are 1,078,127. It totally failed to ask anything that would make the numbers more realistic. My husband and I are a dyad.
Dumb, dumb, dumb. I get over 7 million.
I had a handful (ie, can count of the fingers of one hand) in my teens. I was then with my husband for 23 years and I was definitely his first and only sexual partner.
Had another three since I’ve been on my own.
There’s no way that can be 7 million - they are definitely making the assumption that if my husband was in his forties when I last slept with him, his total number of direct and indirect partners is a little more than one.
In a way, this describes my teenage sex life as well.
Before Herpes? You’re that old? While anti-viral therapy began in the 60s, the disease has been around much, much longer than that.