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My numbers are low, not out of any purity on my part, I have just been lucky in partner finding. If I had needed to date around more I probably would have had more partners.
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quote:Originally posted by BeachLife: It is mathmatically impossible for hetrosexual men to be more promiscuous than hetrosexual women. Every time a man has a new partner, a women is also having a new partner.
What if you have a population of 10 men and 10 women. Say that two of the women have sex with every one of the other men. Each man has had 2 partners, whereas 8 of the women have had no partner at all. This makes the average man more promiscuous than the average woman, even though those 2 women are more promiscuous than any 1 man.
I'm not saying this is what happens, just wondering what your thoughts on this are.
Statistically, the average is still the same: 2 each for women and men.
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(One if you use Bill Clinton's standards for what is and isn't sexual behavior.)
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quote:Originally posted by BeachLife: It is mathmatically impossible for hetrosexual men to be more promiscuous than hetrosexual women. Every time a man has a new partner, a women is also having a new partner.
What if you have a population of 10 men and 10 women. Say that two of the women have sex with every one of the other men. Each man has had 2 partners, whereas 8 of the women have had no partner at all. This makes the average man more promiscuous than the average woman, even though those 2 women are more promiscuous than any 1 man.
I'm not saying this is what happens, just wondering what your thoughts on this are.
Statistically, the average is still the same: 2 each for women and men.
While the mean is the same for both men and women (2) in this hypothetical population, the mode and the median for the women are both zero, while for the men they are both two. Those are two statistically significant values that would indicate the men are more promiscuous.
Please excuse the extreme nerdiness.
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quote:Originally posted by BeachLife: It is mathmatically impossible for hetrosexual men to be more promiscuous than hetrosexual women. Every time a man has a new partner, a women is also having a new partner.
What if you have a population of 10 men and 10 women. Say that two of the women have sex with every one of the other men. Each man has had 2 partners, whereas 8 of the women have had no partner at all. This makes the average man more promiscuous than the average woman, even though those 2 women are more promiscuous than any 1 man.
I'm not saying this is what happens, just wondering what your thoughts on this are.
Statistically, the average is still the same: 2 each for women and men.
While the mean is the same for both men and women (2) in this hypothetical population, the mode and the median for the women are both zero, while for the men they are both two. Those are two statistically significant values that would indicate the men are more promiscuous.
Please excuse the extreme nerdiness.
Yes, but nobody uses the mode or the median without the mean for such a thing.
quote:Originally posted by BeachLife: It is mathmatically impossible for hetrosexual men to be more promiscuous than hetrosexual women. Every time a man has a new partner, a women is also having a new partner.
What if you have a population of 10 men and 10 women. Say that two of the women have sex with every one of the other men. Each man has had 2 partners, whereas 8 of the women have had no partner at all.
Prostitutes (and boasting) skew the statistics.
quote: This makes the average man more promiscuous than the average woman
Not true; both the average man and the average woman have had sex with 2 partners.
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Hey, are we counting prostitutes? Cuz I don't count prostitutes, what with they're already being dead inside, an' all.
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Dedalus, you are a strange, and highly amusing, human being.
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Ha! Thanks, Lil' Pink. Yeah, I'm destined for greatness.
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Zip, even if you don't use the Clinton definition.
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I always knew I was above average in some way.
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Oops, I used the 'Clinton' definition of sex, sorry. Counting all the other 'stuff', I am definitely past the 7-11 that I voted. I don't count my youth as mispent, either, 4K Posts: 533 | From: NE PA | Registered: Sep 2005
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quote:Originally posted by Birtha: I don't count my youth as mispent, either, 4K
It couldn't have been misspent, since I always got lots of interest!
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quote:Originally posted by BeachLife: Yes, but nobody uses the mode or the median without the mean for such a thing.
Actually, this very poll provides information about the mode and the median but not the mean. We know that the mode and the median are both contained within one of the lower number ranges (at least until "26+" has a majority of the votes.) The mean, however, could theoretically be some number wayyyy above 26 if there were a few...ahem..."extreme data points" skewing the data.
(Here's to all the extreme data points in the world! God love 'em! )
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quote: had a consensual encounter in which at least one partner has achieved climax.
This definition has left out an important qualifier--- does the consensual encounter have to be IN PERSON? What about all those folks online who go to sex chat rooms in order to achieve a consensual climax? Or the folks who use the phone for the same purpose? Does that count as a sexual encounter or as "taking care of business" on your own? If the sex chat room escapades are considered to be sexual encounters, then some folks I know who claim very low partner numbers are actually up into the hundreds.
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quote: I yam what I yam and I imagine more than one of you is saying to yourself "yeah, a slut is what you am". So be it.
I don't think anyone here is saying, or thinking, that. Most snopesters I've seen aren't anywhere near that judgemental.
For my part, I say "good for you." Every person is different, but if recreational sex was your thing at that period of time, good on you. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, and anyone who "judges" you is more likely secretly jealous.
As for my part... overal, my number is four. But if you want to count partners who actually MATTERED--and who I don't regret--you can drop that number to one, and I'm married to her.
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26+ doesn't do my figure justice. When at University I was fairly promiscuous. My figure is over 150. I'm almost too embarrassed to say that I don't know the exact figure...
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Speaking of excess, Sapient Homo, would you mind fixing your sig to comply with the board rules?
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I just got an e-mail from an old friend, and it jogged a memory...
If you include all the outright lies told by me when I was in Middle School and high-school - and even the first year of college, my total is pushing probably close to 1000.
Oh, I was quite the prolific lover... in my mind.
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One - married her, still happily together 18 years later.
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quote:Originally posted by BeachLife: Yes, but nobody uses the mode or the median without the mean for such a thing.
I guess I misunderstood the mathematical nature of what you were saying. If I were to encounter a population such as I described, I would still look around and generalize that men have multiple partners -are promiscuous- and women (again, in general) are not.
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quote:Originally posted by Nocturnal Goddess: The Masquerade: 3, one was a boyfriend who pressured me into losing it, one was a situation where, while I wanted to say no or at least give some indication that it wasn't what I wanted, I was too scared and ashamed to assert myself, and the third was the incredible man who forgave me and will be celebrating with me on halloween, our one year aniversary.
Sorry, I certainly don't mean to call you out on this, but forgave you for what?
IMHO it's wrong to require someone to apologize for things they did BEFORE you were a couple. If someone can't accept your past then they have the option not to be with you (and I'm using a general 'you', not singling you out).
For my part, wifey and I have been eachother's only, heavy pettings aside. I'm actually quite happy that it turned out that way, but it's also due to the fact that we met fairly young (18/19 --still, I think in the realm of 'first time years')and were blessed enough to find 'the one' on the first time out.
Oh, and don't be fooled by the single-person count. Except for multiple partners, we could put many a what, where and how tale of sexploit stories to shame .
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one - started on our wedding day and still going very well thank you
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BTW - Dogwater - there are things from a person's past that can adversely affect a current relationship. Not everybody is self aware or forthcoming enough for those issues to be obvious before the relationship begins. Sometimes I guess that leads to a need for forgiveness - of the past behaviour, or of not revealing it/the consequences of it - so that the relationship can move on. Just my two cents anyway
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quote:Count me in at one. Married at 23, still there 22 years later.
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That was the sweetest thing I've ever heard! (if only you could see the look on my face right now...)
Just finished watching a chick flick...Feelin' kinda emotionally squishy...
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quote:Originally posted by Black Belt and Socks: A definition of sexual partner might be in order. For sexual intercourse, my answer would be 1. For fooling around, necking, petting, etc. without intercourse, my answer was 2.
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Subtract 1 from each of BB&S's answers and you'll have my answer.
Me too. Hopefully it'll stay that way *also crosses fingers*
*grins*
ETA: NO! Not because I'm becoming a nun! Sheesh!
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