One in Three U.S. Men Had at Least 15 Sexual Partners

[ecstatic]

June 22 (Bloomberg) -- Almost one in three American men says he has had sex with at least 15 partners, while just one in 11 women reports similar behavior, according to a government survey.

The results, released today by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, came from research that probed the sexual habits and drug use of 6,237 people age 20 to 59 who answered questions from 1999 to 2002. About 4 percent of adults overall, and 11 percent of unmarried ones, said in the survey that they never had sex.

President George W. Bush's administration has tried to promote sexual abstinence among unmarried people as a way to prevent diseases such as HIV, which are spread by intimate contact. The survey results, including the first data collected by the CDC on the number of lifetime sex partners, suggest the abstinence message may not be enough.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a5oKX7fiZzk0

Was going to follow up with a poll but I figured that might be kind of tacky. LOL

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. better than a pole.

i guess.

[BlooInBloo]

2. But not as good as a Czech.

[Lars39]

3. lol

:rofl:

[Eurobabe]

4. Another reason to use condoms folks

STDs are exploding. It's a jungle out there. Be careful.

[BOSSHOG]

5. The number goes down considerably

when evangelist ministers are not counted.

[BurtWorm]

16. Now that Ted Haggard is "heterosexual" it's probably down more than ever!

:patriot:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

54. And they have special disease problems......

Evangelist preachers can only get STDs from doorknobs and toilet seats.....:evilgrin:

That's a very OLD JOKE!

[madokie]

103. My neighbor who I consider a friend told me the other day that gays can be fixed

they can fix that is his exact words. he was telling me how gays are the worst of the worst people in the world and I told him how I feel that a gay person is born not made. I am close to someone who is gay and we've been friends for our whole lives and I've known this person since the day they were born, me being 4 years old then and I can tell you that I have seen it with my own two eyes that gays are born not made. Oh my neighbor I speak of he uses the bible like a tool a crutch if you will. He can show me where in the bible it says anything he chooses to do is right and on the other hand he can show me where everything I say or do is not, go figure.
but hes a good neighbor helps keep an eye on the neighborhood and we help each other with projects but so bigoted. Anyways gays can be fixed, whatever the fuck that means and bush/cheney can't be impeached. fuck all that horseshit.

[and-justice-for-all]

104. Religious zealots can be 'FIXED'..

When some talks to sahdows or their invisible friend, they have a serious mental disfunction. The bible isnt even fit to wipe my ass with.

You might ask him as to why is it, that 80% of the prison population profess to belief in gawd and only 2% submitt to no religion at all?

[madokie]

105. hes beyond fixing no doubt

heres a good one for you, he told his grandson the other day to look at your grandparents on your dads side, they're both dead because they weren't religous and look at me and your grandmother we're both alive at 67 because god lets us. I shit you not. then he rattled off some verse in the bible to support what he was saying.:shrug: I just threw my hands up and walked on back across the street to our place and started kicking shit, jeeze

[and-justice-for-all]

107. What a moron...

And feeding that poor child that religious superstitous nonsence, how sad.
Someday, there will be no religion.

[sendero]

106. If idiots could be fixed..

... there wouldn't have to be people as stupid as your neighbor.

"You can't fix stupid"

[Kutjara]

6. So, from this study, we learn that both men and women lie.

The men overreport, while the women underreport. T'was ever thus.

[ecstatic]

42. I actually think women may have more partners on average than men

I think women have a lot more opportunities for sex than men do.

:hide:

[Guaranteed]

61. On average, the numbers for heterosexual sex between men and women have to be equal.

With regard to the mean average, anyway. Would be interesting to see the median figures.

[whistle]

65. In a perfect world yes, I suppose, but it really does not work that way

...in reality even though the laws of statistical probability say it should work out to be the same. In the game of life the dice are loaded.

[Recursion]

68. Not really

First, the numbers of men and women are not equal. Second sexual activity is not evenly spread among either population.

If you imagine a town with 10 men and 5 women, and each of the 10 men have sex with the same 2 women, and the other 3 women are celibate, then the average number of partners for men is

2 * 10 / 10 = 2

while the average number of partners for women is

(2 * 10 + 3 * 0) / 5 = 20 / 5 = 4

Double the average number of partners for the men.

[Quantess]

76. yes, and I have known 4 or 5 women

who have ****** many more men than average.

[Guaranteed]

82. The only reason the numbers would be different is differences in population.

Which, in the age group in the above poll, is negligible.

[Recursion]

88. Also not totally true given the survey parameters

The survey was of people age 20-59, but some of their partners may not have fallen into that age group, or may not have been in the US. It's only true if you were canvassing the entire world population.

[shadowknows69]

77. If the percentages don't match up

then somebody's lying lol. Unless the men polled are counting "Rosy Palm"

[Recursion]

89. Not really

it's entirely possible for a greater percentage of men than of women to have had 15 or more partners, even if you were canvassing rather than surveying.

[shadowknows69]

90. Well yeah, if you're going to use science and logic and stuff

I was just being silly. ;-) :P B-)

[Mythsaje]

7. I'm close to that number...

Hmmm. My wife always gave me the impression I was some sort of slacker because it wasn't higher.

I guess I wasn't quite the slacker she thinks I was.

:evilgrin:

[trumad]

9. I once told my wife how many

cause she begged me to tell and promised she wouldn't care... yeah right--- she didn't talk to me for a week after I told her.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

12. I learned not to answer that one.

from prior poor experiences when I admitted the #s.

[Mythsaje]

15. I always found the question came up fairly early

in the relationship. I don't lie about things like that and, well, if they're going to get bent out of shape about it, they know where the door is. I don't judge their pasts and they damn well don't get the right to judge mine.

[Mythsaje]

13. My wife thinks it's cute I didn't have more partners...

I obviously wasn't trying hard enough. LOL

She's quite the opposite of many women in that regard.

[BlooInBloo]

18. SUCKER!!!! lolol!

[whistle]

69. You mean you told the truth....not a good idea....even if the number

...was 2 or less!

Agree only to commit to being monogamous, but never divulge the number of women you've ever had sex with. There is not a woman on earth who can psychologically handle that kind of information, even if they swear they want the truth, they can not handle the truth.

[Mythsaje]

74. Not true...

Doesn't bother my wife in the least.

[idgiehkt]

80. lies are always better.

:eyes:

[whistle]

83. Ah, then she is the exception

[DemBones DemBones]

81. I don't think men can handle the truth, either, if

they're really in love with a woman.

[whistle]

84. You're probably correct which is why women never divulge that kind

...of information about themselves

[fishwax]

99. or, perhaps if they're really in love with a woman, all the more reason they can handle it

since the love they have for the woman leads them away from judging the woman for things that happened before he was in the picture :)

[Der Blaue Engel]

98. ROFL

"...not a woman on earth who can psychologically handle that kind of information." That's a good one. :rofl:

Not only do I not care how many partners my partners have had as long as they used a condom, but I don't care how many partners they still have. The second part of that equation may not be the norm, but the first part is ridiculously common. Who are these delicate flowers you've been talking to?

[SoCalDem]

97. For me..willingly.. only my husband

rape does not count :(

[Speck Tater]

11. Guess I'm REALLY a slacker then

two ex-wives, and the same two ex-partners

[whistle]

70. Give yourself time, you sound like someone who is committed to a relationship

...so maybe the plan is you marry 15 different women. I know one or two people who have come close to that.

[Bucky]

19. Don't smirk too much. Remember that ugly people bring the average down.

I will go to hell for saying that.

[whistle]

67. You mean she expected you to have sex with 14 other women

...or are you saying you and your wife had sex a total of 15 times? I'm kidding....no need to answer that.

[TahitiNut]

8. "age 20 to 59"???

Well ... is it just barely possible that age might have SOMETHING to do with it???

Then again, as someone outside of their age range, I can say I don't think I'd be in that 1/3 either ... but I never thought to actually COUNT. It's not like I ever thought scorekeeping made any sense.

:shrug:

[whistle]

73. Oh, oh, I just checked the OP and read below the subject line

...and noticed this study was based on sexual activity and drug use. I assume from that they study examined controlled drugs and illegal prohibited drug use. I've never used drugs. Does that mean I would have been excluded from the study?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. did you catch this?

"About 4 percent of adults overall, and 11 percent of unmarried ones, said in the survey that they never had sex."

that means there are married folks who have never had sex.

I can't quite bend my brain around that one, not with those kind of numbers. 4% of 200,000,000 is one hell of a lot of abstinence loving baptists.

[On the Road]

40. It Doesn't Necessarily Require That

depends on how many single people there were in the base of 6,237. For example:

[porphyrian]

14. How accurate are those statistics, I wonder?

It's not that I doubt they are true, just that I question self-reported data that is commonly exaggerated (usually up for men and down for women).

And, for tackiness, I belong to the one in three who have had 15 or more partners, and I never caught anything I couldn't get rid of (thank whatever higher power). Yes, really.

[Mythsaje]

17. I believe you...

I never caught anything at all.

[porphyrian]

25. And I dodged a few bullets, I'm sure.

I'm glad you made it out, too.

[Rosemary2205]

22. HAHA - I had to read that twice. LOL

"I never caught anything i couldn't get rid of" -- I was thinking dumpable sex partners and then it dawned on me you meant STD's. :) :)

[porphyrian]

27. Yeah, I was lucky. - n/t

[mitchum]

64. A fellow tacky here: I'm four standard deviations above the average...

and I also never caught anything. A very lucky boy.

[Captain Hilts]

20. I was in opinion survey research. I can't emphasize how much everybody lies about sex.

Especially men.

One national survey had men claiming something like 12 partners and women claiming 4.

Everybody's lying.

[Mythsaje]

23. I don't see the point of lying, myself...

'Course, that's usually the case with me anyway.

[alcibiades_mystery]

87. This post celebrates your honesty

You are a good person...:rofl:

[Mythsaje]

93. Eh?

[alcibiades_mystery]

94. Huh?

[MindPilot]

32. We've all been sharing the same two dozen women.

"Have I seen you some place before?"

:hide:

[alcibiades_mystery]

86. If you know this, and we know this

Do you think the researchers know it, too? And do you think that they can construct studies that correct for such lies statistically?

One of the great studies on racism was Adorno's F-Scale, devised in the 1940's. It began with the assumption that few people would admit to racism and antisemitism, even then. So, the challenge was to devise a study that would garner "true beliefs" without encountering the social lie. The last 60 years of opinion research has been aimed at precisely this goal, which is why all these people read methodology sections like it's going out of style. You can never eliminate the lie from the opinion research, but you can determine how the social lie functions in a population and correct for it, at least to some extent.

[HereSince1628]

21. Lesson? Women are comparison shoppers but men like to joy ride

But you know, it could be that Lola-Lovely-Lola factor among naive boys.

[AnnInLa]

24. But, in Repug World, it is OK, and manly and macho

and "normal" for men to have many sexual partners, but not women....oh no. Just makes me wonder who in hell all the men are having sex with...the same group of women, over and over?

I think any "sex poll" is off by 25-50%....because that is the one subject people are absolutely certain to lie about.

This post reminds me of 2 things....saw the movie, "The Kinsey Report" not too long ago on TV, and was fascinated. Most of you are probably too young to remember what a stir The two Kinsey Reports made when they came out (actually, I don't remember them either, but the publicity continuted into the 60's, which was MY time.) The report on female sexuality is considered by the Repugs as one of the most dangerous books ever....yeah, they have a list like that. See, women aren't supposed to have sex, or be sexual beings...which begs the question again, who are men supposed to have sex with?

Also reminded about the episode of "Sex and the City" where the women talk and obsess about their "count."

[Mythsaje]

31. I'm not even in the same ballpark as my wife...

Yep, I married a former "slut."

:shrug: Doesn't bother me.

[xchrom]

26. wow -- people fool around -- imagine that.

social conservatives are a danger to society.

[WoodrowFan]

28. does that count

does that count 8 fingers and 2 thumbs??

[shain from kane]

29. 25 for me. Still looking for Zelda.

[MindPilot]

30. Is that per week?

:evilgrin:

[aquart]

33. Age 59? That's the upper limit?

Eh, those people were scared celibate.

[devilgrrl]

34. The same one in three that still can't satisfy a woman.

:sarcasm:

[ThomWV]

35. That's all?

It seems a suprisingly low number to me.

[Bonobo]

36. Who gets laid more? Circumcised or uncircumcised?

[DavidDvorkin]

37. Hah!

[HereSince1628]

41. Ah, let's not be making fun of life in the hood

[rurallib]

38. If someone has mine could you send them over?

13 of them must've got lost on their way. Hope they haven't gotten any older.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

39. Damn!

I'm way behind those guys........... :) I kid, I kid........ :shrug:

[Matariki]

43. FIFTEEN? In their whole lifetimes?

gosh, i guess i'm a slut. there, i said it ;-)

[Madspirit]

45. We're slutties...

I actually know someone who has only slept with her husband and no one else EVER. They started going together when they were in Jr. High and are now in their 50s and happy as clams. He still plays Jimmy Buffet's "Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw"...ahh...men are such romantics...<g> Still, they are happy and in love and now grandparents. I think they are in a minority however. Most of us have had a lot more sex partners than that.
Lee

[ecstatic]

46. LOL!!

The numbers can add up pretty quickly, even for the mostly celibate.

[shain from kane]

48. Tantra. Are we talking hours or partners?

[Matariki]

52. ;-)

LOL !

[youthere]

51. ^ 5 my slut sistah!

;)

[Madspirit]

44. Ahh....youngsters...

I was in my late teens and early twenties in the late sixties and early seventies. If it was alive, had a pulse.....

Free love Baby. There is nothing wrong with sex. I hate the messages of today..."Sex can Kill" and "Just say 'NO'". What puritans we are.

Lee

[shain from kane]

49. Ever do it in the road?

[Madspirit]

50. Another Thing About That Era

If you remember it real well, you didn't live it...<g>

Lee

[Botany]

47. Love is a Many-Splendored Thing

:hug:

[BlooInBloo]

53. That's one hell of an orgy.

[shadowknows69]

92. Orgies rock

n/t

[cynatnite]

55. Makes me wonder if these men were bragging n/t

[Behind the Aegis]

56. Sounds like a good weekend to me!

:evilgrin:

[noshenanigans]

57. Liars...

I would bet dollars to donuts that women underreport and men underreport. Of course, the fact my husband's asleep and I'm INCREDIBLY frustrated may aid me in that.

[Blue-Jay]

58. Only 15?

[RagingInMiami]

59. Men exaggerate

Women underestimate

[whistle]

72. It has been my personal experience that women are very

...proficient at counting, but selectively forget.

[Prophet 451]

60. So?

Leaving the health issues aside (that's a seperate thing), so what?

[Quantess]

62. Just guessing that.....................

...men's numbers would be about 20 and women's numbers would be 10...
truth be told it's 15.

[whistle]

63. Ah yes, I'm pleased to sai I am ahead of the curve on that aspect of my life

.....play it again Willie.

Nelson Willie: To All the Girls I've Loved Before

To all the girls I’ve loved before
Who travelled in and out my door
I’m glad they came along
I dedicate this song
To all the girls I’ve loved before

To all the girls I once caressed
And may I say I’ve held the best
For helping me to grow
I owe a lot I know
To all the girls I’ve loved before

The winds of change are always blowing
And every time I try to stay
The winds of change continue blowing
And they just carry me away

To all the girls I’ve loved before
Who travelled in and out my door
I’m glad they came along
I dedicate this song
To all the girls I’ve loved before

The winds of change are always blowing
And every time I try to stay
The winds of change continue blowing
And they just carry me away

To all the girls I’ve loved before
Who travelled in and out my door
I’m glad they came along
I dedicate this song
To all the girls I’ve loved before

[treestar]

66. "says"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[WCGreen]

71. Yea, I'm above average in something....

Take that Mom....

[LostInAnomie]

75. This means one of three things

1. The men are WAY over-reporting.
2. The women are WAY under-reporting.
3. There are a few women out there that are having A LOT of sex.

[whistle]

85. 4. All of the above

[orleans]

78. i want to say that would make a one in a million

but i think that would be a bit of an exaggeration.

[DemBones DemBones]

79. Haven't we had that poll before? Maybe several times?

Usually about this time of night and in the Lounge! :evilgrin:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

91. "...sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love."

"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love." - Butch Hancock

[Celeborn Skywalker]

101. Ha ha,

Funny!

[DFW]

95. My wife divulged, I divluged

We both concluded that practice makes perfect :-)

[nonconformist]

96. Not surprised in the least.

I'm surprised the number for women wasn't a bit higher than that, frankly. Not surprised at all for the men.

Or maybe just all the people in my circle were whores. :evilgrin:

[moondust]

100. The hippies are driving the average up.

The Summer of Love actually lasted more than a summer.

[Decruiter]

102. Is there really anyone one of us here that really gives a @#%^$!!

Move this thread to the lounge as well. Has GD gone this far down? Guess I've just not been keeping up.