benchmarking

today's topic of debate: "what qualifies as a slut?"

clearly, a bit of benchmarking is in order to understand when you surpass the "average" number of partners and start crossing the line into slut-dom.

one quick google search later, I've got articles, research papers, and some sex institute all offering up their definition of what's slutty. and then I found this nifty little invention: the Average Number Of Sexual Partners Calculator. lol. well, better to know sooner rather than later, that's for sure - and if you're too lazy to calculate, the average number of partners for US women is 6.6.

but really...is it just me or does that number seem incredibly low? the calculator doesn't account for city, and I would bet that the average is way higher in San Francisco, which consistently ranks within the top 10 of "best cities for singles". clearly all those small hick towns where people marry their high school sweethearts are lowering the bar for everyone else's slut criteria. and I'm not the only one who thinks the academic research is confounded, these other 20-somethings also beg to differ.