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Originally posted by FlamesAddiction+Oct 22 2004, 11:05 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (FlamesAddiction @ Oct 22 2004, 11:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-octothorp@Oct 22 2004, 11:00 PM
You know, one thing that's a statistical enigma to me in these surveys (looking specifically at Total Number of sex partners, midway down the first page):
24% of men have had sex with 11 or more partners, but only 10% of women report similar levels of activity. Infact, if you add up the totals using the low-end numbers, the males, in total, report having 5.93 partners on average. The women, by comparison, report having 3.86 partners. Now, that's a huge statistical difference, over 2. There are 2 possible theories that one can draw from these numbers:
The first theory: A significant portion of all male sex is homosexual--the difference between the male and female figures is 2.07, and the only explanation for men having more encounters than women is gay sex. You're left with 2.07, which means that on average, American males have had two gay partner and four female partners. It also means that one in every five sexual encounters in the US is homosexual. And that's ignoring the probability that a small number of that 3.86 number for the women is made up of lesbian partners, a fact which would push the male homosexual number even higher.
The second, and more likely theory: Men always inflate their number of partners by one on average, likely including second/third base encounters, while women round down, always neglecting to include those one or two guys who weren't very memorable, anyway.
SOMEBODY GIVE ME SOME HOCKEY STATS TO ANALYZE, DAMMIT!!!
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There could be a 3rd reason.
You're making it sound like a woman can only be slept with by one man.
I would say the difference in percentages is because more women are picky about their partners than men are, but that is not to say that there are not some women who have higher totals than men. They would be harder to find when doing a survey. That would bring the men's totals higher.
An overly simple way of saying it is that the men are sleeping with the same women. [/b][/quote]
Well all those partners have to go somewhere... And yeah theres a big difference... kinda disturbing really... the only thing I can think of is that a much smaller portion of women (say 2-3% of all women) have extreme (off the charts) numbers of sexual partners - this could easily be explained at bars... females who want sex all the time have a much easier time getting some than men do, frequently men who would have brought a willing woman home go home empty handed, whereas the woman would have a much easier time finding a partner.