# What is the minimum number of people needed for an orgy? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 19, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184 "2010-11-19T03:09:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/21 "2010-11-19T18:22:35Z")
Five is my number. Up to four, it’s just variations on fairly common sexuality - From coupling to swinging. Past five, the chance that someone in the room is having fun in some way _you’re_ not aware of approaches unity. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/22 "2010-11-19T22:34:53Z")
I gotta go with five as well. With five, you either end up with a couple and a threesome of some combination, or a foursome with someone watching. That’s right the proper side of kinky, there. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/23 "2010-11-19T23:01:34Z")
Another vote for five. As has been stated, there are threesomes and a couple of couples, so five it is at bare (heh) minimum. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/24 "2010-11-19T23:14:15Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > If one person’s committed enough, that’s all you need. > > Can orgy of one be my new slogan? I think the US Army may have a trademarked slogan that conflicts with that … though they recently replaced it with “Orgy Strong”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/25 "2010-11-19T23:59:17Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > \the more bodies you add, the orgier it gets. Do you mind if I sig-afy this? I can see the argument for four technically being able to qualify for an orgy, but I think I’ll have to go with five, too, just because five is the kinkiest number. Well, any odd number, really, but that dilutes my take on a classic saying. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/26 "2010-11-20T00:40:29Z")
It sounds like a real [nightmare to organize](http://www.theonion.com/articles/orgy-a-logistical-nightmare,120/), doesn’t it? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/27 "2010-11-20T03:24:09Z")
For a true orgy, doesn’t at least one of the participants have to have a xmex-like snout and zymolosely polydactile tongue? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/28 "2010-11-20T03:38:24Z")
Four definitely isn’t, and six definitely is, so I guess it’s five. ---
**Author:** ![Dusty\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba8739/32.png) [@Dusty\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dusty_Rose)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/29 "2010-11-20T15:51:59Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > Well three people is a three-way not an orgy > > Four MAY be an orgy but it usually breaks into two seperate twosomes. > > So five is the real start number. Of course that mean you participate not just watch. _[The Family Circus](http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/192/familycircus0621.jpg)_ confirms this. This explains my thinking nicely. (Well, except that The Family Circus never entered my mind.) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/30 "2010-11-20T15:59:09Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > For a true orgy, doesn’t at least one of the participants have to have a xmex-like snout and zymolosely polydactile tongue? > > 😉 True, but my neutronium-piercing claws play hell on the sheets. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/31 "2010-11-20T16:15:16Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Do you mind if I sig-afy this? > > I can see the argument for four technically being able to qualify for an orgy, but I think I’ll have to go with five, too, just because five is the kinkiest number. Well, any odd number, really, but that dilutes my take on a classic saying. A one an’ a two- _Five is the **kinkiest** number - Five is the…_ ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/32 "2010-11-20T16:22:12Z")
Look at it this way: what is the smallest amount of people hanging out together you’d consider a party? IMHO, five. And what is an orgy but a rather specialized form of party? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/33 "2010-11-20T21:05:16Z")
Droit de seigneur would do it for me. As long as I was the Lord. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/34 "2010-11-20T21:19:50Z")
Three can have an orgy if two of them are twins. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/35 "2010-11-20T22:09:48Z")
I was going to v ote 4, but the thread convinced me to vote 5. ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/36 "2010-11-20T22:26:52Z")
I went with 5 for the reasons listed above. But I really think that would be a pretty tame orgy. To really put the “Org” in orgy you need 7+ couples. If you can do everyone there in a single night (for guys anyway) what kind of orgy is that? To really get the true effect, it seems to me (based on no actual experience you understand) you have to go home thinking next time you’re gonna be getting some strange. YMMV ---
**Author:** ![dzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/37 "2010-11-20T22:29:00Z")
The minimum number for an orgy is the same as the minimum number for World of Warcraft - 5 ---
**Author:** ![aammyyrroossee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@aammyyrroossee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aammyyrroossee)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/38 "2010-11-27T05:41:04Z")
An orgy must have at least 6 people: masturbation, one on one, threesome, 2 couples swinging, 2 couples swinging with a lookie-loo ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/39 "2010-11-27T06:07:40Z")
I don’t want to know what a “lookie-loo” is. Welcome to the SD, aammyyrroossee! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184/40 "2010-11-27T07:14:28Z")
> [@aammyyrroossee](#): > > An orgy must have at least 6 people: masturbation, one on one, threesome, 2 couples swinging, 2 couples swinging with a lookie-loo Can the masturbator double up as the lookie-loo? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-minimum-number-of-people-needed-for-an-orgy/561184.md?page=3)