While we're on the subject of Sex and the City, here's an interesting finding. I just read in last week's issue of New York magazine that men on average have about 35 sexual partners in their lifetime. It says that women, on the other hand, have only six.
That seemed a little absurd to my curious mind. So I, the quintessential girl-geek, did the math:
Assume we have 100 men, and x is the total number of sexual encounters:
In that case, x/100 = 35
Therefore, x = 3500
For Women:
3500/y = 6
Therefore, y = 583
So my conclusions are one of the following
1) The ratio of men to women in New York is 1:5.8, which I don't think is true
Therefore,
a) Some of the men polled are sleeping with other men
b) Some of the men polled are sleeping with women outside of NY
c) The men polled are not sleeping with the women polled
Thoughts anyone??
As Mark Twain quoted: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.
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