Do human males or do human females have a greater average (arithmetic mean) number of opposite-sex partners in their lifetime?

[Kelley1]

Self-Reported Averages

106 human males are born for every 100 human females.

If you are capable of thinking logically, you should get the correct answer. Otherwise, you answer will probably be wrong.

[sawno]

Women have a magnitute more oppertunity for it, they can sleep with as many men as they'd want and many men would be easily convinced to have sex. But simultaniously thats because women are way more conservative in sex partners. So its hard for me to predict what the exact number is, but its obviously in control of the womens preferences.

[Kelley1]

I also don't know what the arithmetic mean is for human males and females. However, regardless of the average numbers, since the averages are greater than zero, there is a logical answer to the question.

[slatyb]

No, it's very close to equal. Every time a man is having sex with a new partner, a woman is having sex with a new partner. So the total is the same for both services. We divide that total by the number of individuals, which are approximately equal.

[Kelley1]

Apparently, you are one of the less than 10% of people on GAG with the ability to think logically.

[slatyb]

I got one of the top 100 scores on the Putnam Examination my junior year at college.

[Kelley1]

I had to Google Putnam Exam. You are required to be logical to be that good at math. You are the only person that understood the concept. The other replied with whatever popped into their head.

[exitseven]

If things were equal it would be that men have more sexual partners but since it is much easier for females to rack up big body counts I say that is is females.

[Kelley1]

That is the correct answer but not for the reason you stated. See update for the logical answer.

[exitseven]

Rarely are relationships between the semester logical

[Anonymous]

Well the problem is with your question is you're trying to apply logic to a subject that is illogical. And to a gender (women) that is completely illogical when it comes to partners. It maybe logical to say there are 106 males and 100 females but that's only relevant if partners are chosen equally and they're not. Some women, some men (especially Wilt Chamberlain) will have over a 100 partners. And some will have 0.

[In_Trance]

Girls have more

[HighValue]

Women have more sexual partners because there are far more lesbian and bisexual women than men.

[Anonymous]

If a woman has one or more sexual partners throughout her life, I will not take her seriously for a long-term relationship.

[OddBeMe]

Are you saying the six extra males skew the numbers that much? You need to take a statistics course.

[standardguy]

The mere number of potential sex partners has no correlation to the real number of sex partners.

[Kelley1]

Instead of answering the question you made an obvious unrelated statement. Yours, mine, and most everyone's potential number of opposite sex human sex partners is close to 4 billion. You may claim that many of the 4 billion are not potential sex partners for any of a number of reason. Regardless, your statement is of no value.

[standardguy]

You mentioned the relation of male/females in the question and this has nothing to do with the number of schools partners you have in fact.

[BarryLiverstone]

In the past it was men

[MrZameer]

I think guys have more sex partners than girls.