# Number of Sexual Partners **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 25, 2001, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653 "2001-09-25T07:51:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![seawitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@seawitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seawitch)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/41 "2001-09-25T18:01:30Z")
Female, 40, married. 87 partners (all men); no problems. Serial monogamist. ---
**Author:** ![robgruver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/42 "2001-09-25T18:45:55Z")
Thanks to everyone for replying. I wish I had a grant to actually study this, as I find it amazingly interesting. Please continue. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/43 "2001-09-25T18:56:54Z")
Male, 42, 170-180 partners. Wife, 32, 3 including me. I was 37 before I married and very active. No problems but had she been the one with the most then yeah, there probably would have been. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/44 "2001-09-25T19:54:04Z")
Male, 33, married, 12- all female. I feel vaguely inadequate now… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kittie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Kittie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kittie)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/45 "2001-09-25T19:55:07Z")
I’ve had one and I’m still with him 😃 He’s the best ~Kittie ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/46 "2001-09-25T20:05:26Z")
male, 49, married, 5, no problems ---
**Author:** ![YWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6f9a4e/32.png) [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/47 "2001-09-25T20:23:40Z")
40, married female, 1. I purposely never asked my spouse how many partners he had had before me. I feel it’s better for my mental health for me not to know. ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/48 "2001-09-25T20:48:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*Male, 42, 170-180 partners. > \*\* Im wondering if you realized that you accidentally put a zero behind your answer? 😃 Honestly though I think I feel badly for those 10 in between. I guess when your dealing with numbers that big it’s hard to keep track 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/49 "2001-09-25T21:06:05Z")
Male, 43, married 17 years, 2 partners, no problems ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/50 "2001-09-25T21:28:36Z")
Male, 32, non-traditionally married, 43 partners, no problems to speak of. ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/51 "2001-09-25T21:34:20Z")
Male, 23, married, 1 partner, no problems ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/52 "2001-09-25T22:07:08Z")
Just asked wife: Female 44, 7 partners, I have no problems with this number, well considering her skills it seems low 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jane\_D\_oh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/839c29/32.png) [@Jane\_D\_oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jane_D_oh)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/53 "2001-09-25T22:58:04Z")
Female 39(yikes!) the last time I really counted the number of partners I had was in my late twenties and it was more than twenty five and less than fifty. (Penetration only included in the count.) I knew I should have saved that list too cuz boy, I can’t remember half of 'em… (others I still get woozy when I think about 'em) I spent my thirties in a series of monagomous relationships so I’m more than thirty less than fifty. (no women) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/54 "2001-09-25T23:44:07Z")
Male, 30, …oh, god…over 200? Somewhere in there… I was a baaaaaad boy, who someone upstairs was watching over very carefully. An indeterminate but very large number of mostly anonymous partners and no STDs contracted…is that a record? 😃 jayjay (not that there’s anything wrong with being bad…) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/55 "2001-09-25T23:45:13Z")
Oh…all male, btw… jayjay (gay as a spring breeze) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/56 "2001-09-25T23:46:15Z")
Male, 45, 3 partners. ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/57 "2001-09-26T00:03:24Z")
female, 30 in a couple of weeks, and it really depends on how we’re defining sex. Intercourse - 5, everything but - I have no idea, probably close to 30. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/58 "2001-09-26T00:07:42Z")
Female, 38, married 17 years, One. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/59 "2001-09-26T01:23:16Z")
Male/28/0…since May, anyway. Other than that, none of your damn business. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653/60 "2001-09-26T01:39:56Z")
Female, 31, 18 1/2\* partners. \*There was the hot bartender, looked like Axl Rose…didn’t quite finish, IYKWIM [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-sexual-partners/83653.md?page=4)