So feel free to poke around (pun also intended!) on this nifty little tool if you want to have a good chuckle (or an ego boost, depending on how you look at it). If nothing else, the calculator proves how fundamentally useless the slut-shaming implications of the " What's your number?" question are - regardless of whether you've slept with three people or 300. For instance, if you're monogamously committed, maybe get tested yearly if you're getting it on to the tune of five or more new partners a year, it's a good idea to get a checkup approximately every three months.īut even though we tend to think of how many people someone has slept with as a good indicator of their sexual history, the sex calculator proves that no matter how many people you've actually slept with, your number of partners by proxy is bound to be pretty damn high. Instead, Vrangalova says that it's more important to know your risk factors and get tested regularly according to how many new sexual partners you have. "Given that most people will have multiple partners in their lives, I think this number is pointless," she said. "It might make for a cool gimmick, but in terms of health and prevention of STIs, it's completely useless." Zhana Vrangalova, a sex researcher who teaches at New York University, told Mic that no, we absolutely do not. Which raises the question: How important is this number, exactly? Do we really need to know how many Ps and Vs our partners have touched - and their partners, and so on and so forth - to know that it's usually a good idea to use protection during sex? (In case you're wondering, that number is nine, which translates into nearly 4 million sexual partners by proxy, according to the survey - but a 2013 national survey puts that number at 11.7 for men and 7.7 for women, respectively.) That said, the value of the sex calculator diminishes when you consider these results are just an approximation, based on data of the average number of sex partners for people in the United Kingdom. And it's never a bad idea to remind people of the importance of regularly having safe sex. were diagnosed with an STI in 2014, this is certainly a valuable message. "This calculator illustrates how exposed you can be to STIs, and how important safe sex is."Ĭonsidering 440,000 people in the U.K. It's shocking how quickly the numbers shoot up," the site tells you after you've gotten your results.
"We've calculated your partners' partners, and their partners' partners, and so on - for just six degrees.
It's intended to raise awareness of sexually transmitted infections and the importance of regularly getting tested. But according to the pharmacy's website, the point of the calculator isn't to call all of us out for having casual sex with multiple partners. Feeling a little bit slut-shamed right now? That's OK - to be honest, so do we.
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