(This study was conducted by Dr. Jenni Skyler, PhD, LMFT, C-PST, licensed marriage and family therapist, certified sex therapist, board-certified sex researcher and a spokesperson for Adam & Eve, a sex toy company that commissioned the study)
Results suggest nearly 10% of individuals polled said they’d never had sex, while 35% said they’d been with one partner. Forty-three percent reported between two to 10 partners, and 7% had been with 11 to 25 partners. Just over 4% said they’d had intercourse with 26 to 40, 2% said they had 41 to 75, 3% reported 76 to 100 partners, and 3% reported more than 100 partners.
So, if you go by median instead of mean, its probably actually lower than 5 (probably 3 ish?), as 45% of people have had one sexual partner or less.
Displayed in another way:
0 partners : 10% of pop.
1 partner: 35% of pop.
2 - 10 partners: 43% of pop.
11 - 25 partners: 7% of pop.
26 - 40 partners: 4% of pop.
41 - 75 partners: 2% of pop.
76 - 100 partners: 3% of pop.
100+ partners: 3% of pop.
Last time I was on a dating app that had a free commenting ability and like community threads… think it was boo? Some kind of weird, basically instagram but for dating, but everyone just used it like it was instagram…
I’d run into like 23 year olds saying shit like ‘this person my age was saying they’ve got a 200+ body count, is that normal?’
And I’d respond ‘It’s not impossible, but uh, chances are that they’re either lying, or they’re literally a sex worker, pornstar or something, that’s extremely abnormal.’
I’m 35 and in the 11-25 tranche, more than average, maybe even outside of one StdDev, but its astounding how many people think that just everyone has an average of a different sexual partner for every week or two past the age of 16.
There are people that approximate that, but its pretty damn rare.
Yeah, I’m in the 11-25 range too, which is actually surprising to me. I’ve two friends who probably are the tier above that and the vast majority of the people I know are below that.
The only person I can think of that may have been even a tier above that did some work in that area, was an attractive girl, and high libido. Definitely an outlier.
TBH though I would’ve thought the average would’ve been higher
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/new-data-here-s-how-many-sexual-partners-most-americans-have-had/ar-BB1ob50P
(This study was conducted by Dr. Jenni Skyler, PhD, LMFT, C-PST, licensed marriage and family therapist, certified sex therapist, board-certified sex researcher and a spokesperson for Adam & Eve, a sex toy company that commissioned the study)
So, if you go by median instead of mean, its probably actually lower than 5 (probably 3 ish?), as 45% of people have had one sexual partner or less.
Displayed in another way:
Last time I was on a dating app that had a free commenting ability and like community threads… think it was boo? Some kind of weird, basically instagram but for dating, but everyone just used it like it was instagram…
I’d run into like 23 year olds saying shit like ‘this person my age was saying they’ve got a 200+ body count, is that normal?’
And I’d respond ‘It’s not impossible, but uh, chances are that they’re either lying, or they’re literally a sex worker, pornstar or something, that’s extremely abnormal.’
I’m 35 and in the 11-25 tranche, more than average, maybe even outside of one StdDev, but its astounding how many people think that just everyone has an average of a different sexual partner for every week or two past the age of 16.
There are people that approximate that, but its pretty damn rare.
Yeah, I’m in the 11-25 range too, which is actually surprising to me. I’ve two friends who probably are the tier above that and the vast majority of the people I know are below that.
The only person I can think of that may have been even a tier above that did some work in that area, was an attractive girl, and high libido. Definitely an outlier.
TBH though I would’ve thought the average would’ve been higher
^jesus.
…just, how?
Edit: Also, if the sequence is adjusted to sum to 100% (≠104), the last line would be more accurate as 0.01%.