# Your longest bout of celibacy... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 6, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303 "2003-02-06T20:53:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/1 "2003-02-06T20:53:10Z")
I’m going on 4 months and it’s killing me. If I don’t get some soon, I’m going to spontaneously combust. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/2 "2003-02-06T20:54:41Z")
252 months and one week. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/3 "2003-02-06T20:54:49Z")
Three minutes. Or was that TMI? ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/4 "2003-02-06T20:57:40Z")
Oh wait … are you referring to sex with _other people_? In that case, 8 months and 12 days. :: D&R :: ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/5 "2003-02-06T21:00:30Z")
depends on how you define it. No sexual activity at all it would be 22 months. If sexual activity but no intercourse, then still going at 36 months. Ahh, to have a Catholic girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![TeleTronOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@TeleTronOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeleTronOne)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/6 "2003-02-06T21:07:29Z")
5 1/2 Years. Go psychological problems. And it wasn’t even good. ---
**Author:** ![Felonious\_Mink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Felonious\_Mink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Felonious_Mink)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/7 "2003-02-06T21:25:20Z")
I can’t remember that far back. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/8 "2003-02-06T21:29:26Z")
Not counting the first 23 years of my life, a few weeks. hrh ---
**Author:** ![EVO95](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@EVO95](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EVO95)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/9 "2003-02-06T21:29:26Z")
I’ve _never_ been famous. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/10 "2003-02-06T21:31:07Z")
I gave up dating in _1989_, before some of you were out of diapers. Not my choice, but there ya are. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/11 "2003-02-06T21:36:17Z")
Hmmmm…not counting the initial one, probably about 2 years. Since then, it’s gone in spurts… ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/12 "2003-02-06T21:38:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eva Luna \* > \*\*it’s gone in spurts… \*\* snicker ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/13 "2003-02-06T21:40:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eva Luna \* > \*\*Hmmmm…not counting the initial one, probably about 2 years. Since then, it’s gone in spurts… \*\* To quote the band (I think it was…) Television, “Love comes in spurts.” hrh ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/14 "2003-02-06T21:42:09Z")
7 2/3 years. 8 in May. Last time it was the week I graduated from college. Well, technically the day I graduated from college. From that, I could probably figure out the exact day, but I don’t really want to. ---
**Author:** ![EVO95](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@EVO95](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EVO95)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/15 "2003-02-06T21:52:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hrhomer \* > \*\*To quote the band (I think it was…) Television, “Love comes in spurts.” > > hrh \*\* Richard Hell and the Voidoids. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/16 "2003-02-06T21:55:21Z")
ummm… Any kind of sex, or decent sex? Any… about 2 years. Decent… about 5 years. (okay it was January 14th, 1998) ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/17 "2003-02-06T21:55:57Z")
A month and a half. Yeah, I know, that’s not very long, but after eleven months of LOTS and LOTS of sex, I REALLY miss it! ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/18 "2003-02-06T22:01:10Z")
I divorced my ex in 1978. **Rico** and I got together **22 YEARS** later. Top that! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/19 "2003-02-06T22:01:37Z")
About four years… Currently, about four weeks… ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303/20 "2003-02-06T22:07:03Z")
4,441 days, or the period from June 26, 1990 to August 23, 2002. That’s over 12 years. Now that I have since broken up with my last girlfriend I just hope I’m not in for _another_ 12 years of celibacy. ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-longest-bout-of-celibacy/153303.md?page=2)