Find Out How Your Sex Number Compares to Other People’s
In case you’d rather not learn during an awkward bachelorette party game <!–paging_filter–>You know you’re curious about how your number compares to other people’s (hence the premise of the Anna Faris film). But now, you can stop wondering, thanks to a new “sex history calculator” from Slate.com. “You, dear reader, are a human being. And as a human being, you are naturally curious, a little bit self-conscious, and maybe even competitive about sex,” write Andrew Kahn and Jordan Weissmann while introducing the interactive tool. They go on to explain that, after hearing about research that found many millennials are on track to have fewer sexual partners throughout the course of their lifetime than their parents, they wanted to create something that
You know you’re curious about how your number compares to other people’s (hence the premise of the Anna Faris film). But now, you can stop wondering, thanks to a new “sex history calculator” from Slate.com.
“You, dear reader, are a human being. And as a human being, you are naturally curious, a little bit self-conscious, and maybe even competitive about sex,” write Andrew Kahn and Jordan Weissmann while introducing the interactive tool. They go on to explain that, after hearing about research that found many millennials are on track to have fewer sexual partners throughout the course of their lifetime than their parents, they wanted to create something that would help individuals put the data used in the study into context. So they took the data from the General Social Survey (what the authors of the aforementioned study went off of) and used it to create a calculator. Here’s what the tool says about a 28-year-old woman who’s slept with six people:
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And here’s what it says about a man with the same stats:
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Of course, that doesn’t mean that any given number is “better” than any other—but it is interesting to see yourself charted against everyone else. To try the tool for yourself, visit Slate.com.
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