John Green on number of partners

[gault]

Love it.

48 kinds of cereal... he must really enjoy his breakfasty goodness.

[winterjen]

(heart)

[jellymankelly]

I've never seen him before. I'm inclined to say I would like to be #49...

[riverpestie]

LOL!

[jojoandleo]

This is why I just don't do the numbers talk. I ask about STD tests and get on with my happy self. I have no idea how many women H has been with, and better yet, he has no idea how many men I have been with. I am sure this is flameful to some. LOL.

[riverpestie]

The only person I have dated that I knew how many people he'd been with was my first and that's because I was his first, too.

I'm with Jojo, I am more concerned about STDs.

[gault]

The number of partners doesn't necessarily matter to me, but I don't mind knowing because I'm a curious a-hole. And I'm not shy about telling mine if they want to know. Meh

[Deleted]

I don't understand the numbers conversation either. H and I have never discussed this and I'm okay with that. We did have the STD talk when we first started dating and that's all that was important to me.

[jojoandleo]

Mar 17, 2014 14:29:18 GMT -5 chalupa said:

Mar 17, 2014 14:22:34 GMT -5 jojoandleo said:

This is why I just don't do the numbers talk. I ask about STD tests and get on with my happy self. I have no idea how many women H has been with, and better yet, he has no idea how many men I have been with. I am sure this is flameful to some. LOL.

This exactly. Hell, I don't bother to count my own number up. Who cares?

I kept a list in my twenties because I had some fucked up idea of anything over a certain number being TOO MANY!  Then I said fuck it and burnt it.  I couldn't tell you my number.  I could give you a guestimate.  LOL. 

*Note, I almost said "ballpark figure" and then realized that would open myself up to jokes about my number being the same as a ballpark.

[achase123]

Sometimes I get drunk and try to count my number. It always turns out differently even when I try to go in chronological order. But I def know what it was when I got married. I agree; the number does not matter and shouldn't be discussed.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

I have a list of first names, mostly because I feel somehow obliged to at least remember that much. I'm trying to keep it in the double digits.

[jojoandleo]

Mar 17, 2014 15:24:28 GMT -5 lyssbobiss, Command, B613 said:

I have a list of first names, mostly because I feel somehow obliged to at least remember that much. I'm trying to keep it in the double digits.

Yeah, my list had names like, "Neighbor boy" and "The Australian" on it.  I'm all class over here.

[Mrs.Rad888]

I thought this was going to be about John Gray, the dude who wrote "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" and couldn't wait to see what kind of whore-blaming he was engaging in. I don't have any basis for that thinking, but he does seem to come off with an "I do relationships better than you" kind of vibe.

I also couldn't come up with a number. I could guess, but don't know how close it would be. I've truly forgotten most of the guys who were early in my sex-having life, because they were forgettable. I guess that makes me more of a whore, that not all my sexual encounters were meaningful, life-affirming occurrences. I've even forgotten the names of most of the guys that I've had sex with but weren't married to.

[doriswe]

Who is John Green?

[jojoandleo]

Mar 17, 2014 15:35:31 GMT -5 doriswe said:

Who is John Green?

He is an author.  I think he mainly does YA books, like "Fault in Our Stars."

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Mar 17, 2014 15:22:29 GMT -5 @stpete said:

I'd have to know it before I could tell someone.

My OBGYN has a blank for "Lifetime # of partners" and "# of partners in the last year."  This is how I fill it out:

Lifetime:  # . . .+ ?
Last year:  Exact #

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Mar 17, 2014 17:38:45 GMT -5 FormerlyRR said:

Mar 17, 2014 16:56:32 GMT -5 @bigtowlittletoe said:

My OBGYN has a blank for "Lifetime # of partners" and "# of partners in the last year."  This is how I fill it out:

Lifetime:  # . . .+ ?
Last year:  Exact #

I would probably just give last year and ignore the first part.

He definitely doesn't care, but it gives his nurse a good laugh.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

Mar 17, 2014 15:29:20 GMT -5 jojoandleo said:

Mar 17, 2014 15:24:28 GMT -5 lyssbobiss, Command, B613 said:

I have a list of first names, mostly because I feel somehow obliged to at least remember that much. I'm trying to keep it in the double digits.

Yeah, my list had names like, "Neighbor boy" and "The Australian" on it.  I'm all class over here.

Psh, my list reads like...josh/joe? Something with a j?
And a lot of misspellings.
I'm not really the picture of chastity.

Once I tried to figure out all the people I'd ever made out with. That went as well as anyone would expect.

[jojoandleo]

Mar 17, 2014 19:51:04 GMT -5 lyssbobiss, Command, B613 said:

Mar 17, 2014 15:29:20 GMT -5 jojoandleo said:

Yeah, my list had names like, "Neighbor boy" and "The Australian" on it.  I'm all class over here.

Psh, my list reads like...josh/joe? Something with a j?
And a lot of misspellings.
I'm not really the picture of chastity.

Once I tried to figure out all the people I'd ever made out with. That went as well as anyone would expect.

I couldn't even attempt a list.  It would say "six guys at that one bar in Austin that one night."  And that six is a guesstimate...