# Let's play Flag Count (as in sexual) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 30, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504 "2007-08-30T15:23:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/61 "2007-09-01T00:47:03Z")
[QUOTE=Nzinga, Seated] Ohhhhhhhhhh… I think I have misunderstood this game. Jamaica U.S. Puerto Rico [/QUOTE] That’s okay – I just knew you _had_ to be at least 3-countries cute. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/62 "2007-09-01T01:03:51Z")
I’m not sure I get it. Is it countries we’ve had sex in, or countries whose inhabitants/citizens/scions we’ve had sex with? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/63 "2007-09-01T01:06:51Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] I’m not sure I get it. Is it countries we’ve had sex in, or countries whose inhabitants/citizens/scions we’ve had sex with? [/QUOTE] According to the OP: [QUOTE=pizzabrat] i.e., how many countries you’ve slept **with**. List them, and state your age for relativity’s sake . . . . [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/64 "2007-09-01T01:11:23Z")
USA China England Canada Taiwan Hong Kong Australia Singapore Japan ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/65 "2007-09-01T02:57:11Z")
> [@5-4-Fighting](#): > > That’s okay – I just knew you had to be at least 3-countries cute. Two, you mean. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/66 "2007-09-01T02:59:48Z")
No, she was cute enough to have had partners from at least 3 countries interested in her, _including_ the US. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/67 "2007-09-01T03:08:04Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] No, she was cute enough to have had partners from at least 3 countries interested in her, _including_ the US. [/QUOTE] I know PR is a commonswealth of the US, but for the purposes of this thread, it’s cultural different and sovereign enough to count. Man, what a way to mess up what I thought was a way smoove line. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/68 "2007-09-01T03:16:25Z")
Dammit! Is Puerto Rico a part of the U.S.? Is the Virgin Islands? I know I am hijackin’ the hell out of the thread at this point, but I have always been a bit confused about parts of the U.S. outside of the 50 states… is Puerto Rico officially the U.S.? ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/69 "2007-09-01T04:54:12Z")
I’m thinking this is a good game… Of course, for me, only the United States. Brendon Small ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/70 "2007-09-01T09:35:52Z")
**5-4-Fighting** : Either people are a lot kinkier than I thought, or I don’t understand what “sleeping with a country” means. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/71 "2007-09-01T18:01:37Z")
Does humping a Pakistani intern in the U.S. count? ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/72 "2007-09-01T18:48:36Z")
I hate to rain on anybody’s parade, but: Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are officially American. Prices for everything are in American dollars, they pay taxes to the IRS, they have a governor (well, Puerto Rico has one, I don’t know about the Virgin Islands), they “join up” into the US armed forces, and they’re governed by the President and live by the laws of the Congress and the rulings of the Supreme Court. Their official business is in Spanish, but so is that of the US mainland (you can find any government document in Spanish pretty easily). The people predominantly speak Spanish, but the same is true of parts of Texas and California; you can get by just as well with English in San Juan, Puerto Rico as you can anywhere else in the US. (My dad lived there for four years and never learned a word of Spanish.) As for the culture, you can’t tell me that it’s much different in San Juan than it is in Spanish Harlem. The food is the same, the languages are the same, the pastimes are essentially the same. You might as well say that Hawaii is not part of the US, and that’s a pretty tough sell. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/73 "2007-09-01T19:07:47Z")
The US and Japan. Wow, all things being relative, I’m practically a virgin again! **Priceguy** , the question can be rephrased thus: “Think of all the people you’ve slept with. How many different countries were they from, and what countries were they?” Only born-and-bred natives of the country are to be counted; i.e., a Vietnamese-American does not count as Vietnamese. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2007, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/74 "2007-09-02T07:33:56Z")
So it was the second of my two alternatives. Then it’s 2 for me, Sweden and Thailand. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/75 "2007-09-02T14:16:44Z")
England Scotland Ireland N.Ireland USA Italy Canada Australia This would look ok…but I’ve been with Irishfella since I was 19, and a lot of those countries could be counted more than once! ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2007, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/76 "2007-09-02T14:23:41Z")
USA Brazil Colombia Panama Norway Austria Canada Mexico Germany Argentina, and Korea ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/77 "2007-09-02T16:43:57Z")
USA Canada Finland Spain Cypress ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/78 "2007-09-02T17:36:40Z")
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that everyone here is so _guilty_ of all the sex they’ve had? ---
**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:** [September 2, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/79 "2007-09-02T17:39:13Z")
USA Taiwan, sort of… she was born in Taiwan, and spent pretty much every summer there for years, and lived there off and on for a while. That’s it. Dang it. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504/80 "2007-09-02T18:07:58Z")
England Wales Ireland USA Spain Greece Tunisia…I wish I hadn’t, but I was half cut France Germany. I know the first 3 should really count as one but I wanted to look good 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-flag-count-as-in-sexual/417504.md?page=5)