I think that’s how it works.
handy writes:
> Most people can’t keep track after 50 ppl, so I wonder how he came up with this number?
The excerpt I read from his book said that he had kept a diary for some short period of time. (A month, perhaps.) He figured out what his daily average was over that period and multiplied by forty years, since he thought that he averaged about the same rate between the ages of 15 and 55.
And, yes, I don’t think this is a very accurate way of estimating either.
Birth control failure figures are for women who have regular sex with their partner over the course of a year. Properly used, they are 99% effective. Meaning over the course of a year of regular sex, 1% of women on birth control with become pregnant.
“1% of women on birth control with become pregnant.”
Pregnancy is not a very useful stat to me for condoms, for example, because:
–Most women don’t get pregnant during their period, so is that based on a 25 day month?
–Even if a condom falls off, or splits, etc, the women may not get pregnant.
–Some women are infertile
–Some men are infertile
–A condom can have a hole in it on the side but the people might not notice & pregnancy may not result.
Therefore, the actual scientific percentage is probably much higher.
Also, how often do they have sex when they consider birth control stats?
Theoretically, his odds of having a contraceptive failure wouldn’t be that much higher than married man and wife.
If you think about it, he doesn’t claim to have had tons more sex than the average man. He just claims to have had more women than the average man.
Now you guys will probably remark that the average man and wife don’t have sex four times a week, and that’s undoubtedly true.
However, the average man probably does have sex at least… what, once a month?
So assuming 4 times a week times 4.33 (weeks in avg month) we get 17 instances sexual congress per month for Wilt.
If birth control is 99% successful, then the average man who was sexually active for 50 years would generate .5 accidental children.
Based on the same statistic, then a man having sex 17 times as much would have… 8.5 children over those 50 years.
So, more kids out of wedlock than most men have in wedlock. More kids than most men have period.
Of course that assumes the pregnancy results in a child, and either abortion or miscarriage could substantially lower that 8.5 children.