No More a Slut!
Anthony Berno
I discovered the other day, with some delight, that I can still count my
sexual partners on my fingers.
Of course, I have to use binary notation... :-)
-A
kev...@ralvm14.vnet.ibm.com
In message-ID: <1992Jan30....@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca>
abe...@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) writes:
Well, at least your not using hex notation or something! d;-)
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John Dorrance
> I discovered the other day, with some delight, that I can still count my
> sexual partners on my fingers.
So can I, but I'm not ruling any labels out since all but one of those
fingers were achieved since June. :)
And let's not use the word 'slut' in a way that could be construed in a
negative fashion, d'accord? Those of us who ascribe to that title /hate/
that...
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Charles Squires
> I discovered the other day, with some delight, that I can still count my
> sexual partners on my fingers.
Actually, if you use your fingers efficiently, you can count quite high
with them :-) 2-to-the-10th power (1,024), if you start from 1 instead of
zero :-) I'll be more impressed by someone who, with all ten fingers still
connected to his/her hands, can honestly tell me (s)he CAN'T count his/her
sexual partners on his/her fingers :-) Talk about having a difficult
social calendar to juggle!
Charlie
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Jess Anderson
In article <1992Feb3.1...@ircam.fr> fra...@ircam.fr
(Joseph Francis) writes:
>2^10 is a very big number, but then there are still the toes to think about.
What? I don't think 2^10 is a very big number, if we're
counting tricks. I'm quite sure I've had sex more than 2^13
times, although the number of partners is relatively small,
~2^7 or so; we both know people who've had more than 2^10
*different* partners.
Yes, even here in River City.
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>Actually, if you use your fingers efficiently, you can count quite high
>with them :-) 2-to-the-10th power (1,024), if you start from 1 instead of
>zero :-) I'll be more impressed by someone who, with all ten fingers still
>connected to his/her hands, can honestly tell me (s)he CAN'T count his/her
>sexual partners on his/her fingers :-) Talk about having a difficult
>social calendar to juggle!
Though I can't claim ability to impress you, I'm not sure that
managing in one's social calendar in order to run out of fingers
isn't really difficult:
One new partner a week, steadily throughout the year for 20 years would do
it. When the baths played a more prominent role in gay men's sex
lives, one partner a week was considered rather modest in some
circles.
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Mindless." -- Jess Anderson
Brett {Druid Queen} Manz
Le Jojo writes:
|>In article <1992Jan31....@news.unomaha.edu> ACM...@Zeus.unomaha.edu (John Dorrance) writes:
|>>abe...@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca writes:
|>>
|>>> I discovered the other day, with some delight, that I can still count my
|>>> sexual partners on my fingers.
|>>
|>>fingers were achieved since June. :)
|>>
|>>And let's not use the word 'slut' in a way that could be construed in a
|>>negative fashion, d'accord? Those of us who ascribe to that title /hate/
|>>that...
|>
|>kind of boy I am.
|>2^10 is a very big number, but then there are still the toes to think about.
|>
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Joseph Francis
>
>> I discovered the other day, with some delight, that I can still count my
>> sexual partners on my fingers.
>
>So can I, but I'm not ruling any labels out since all but one of those
>fingers were achieved since June. :)
>
>And let's not use the word 'slut' in a way that could be construed in a
>negative fashion, d'accord? Those of us who ascribe to that title /hate/
>that...
My dears, I long ago started counting on my fingers in binary. Its just the
kind of boy I am.
2^10 is a very big number, but then there are still the toes to think about.
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Arnold Zwicky
lot of my straight male friends had had more partners in their
lifetime than i had, and that this was true of a respectable number
of my straight female friends too. [sometime back in the 70s
we started telling one another pretty much everything, which is
why i can make these claims with some assurance.]
like jess, i figure my number is on the order of 2^7. for me,
this works out to two or three people a year. so i now i
think that though i used to suppose i was "promiscuous", i
am in fact asymptotically approaching normality, very fast.
queer, yes, but "queer" is not a term of art in statistics.
but, really, what i think is that we ought to retire the
words "promiscuous" and "slut", and truly worry about things
that matter.
arnold <still, he hopes, sexy>
Jess Anderson
In article <1992Feb4.0...@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
zwi...@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Arnold Zwicky) writes:
>but, really, what i think is that we ought to retire the
>words "promiscuous" and "slut", and truly worry about things
>that matter.
Oh no you don't, you linguist, you! Keep your scholarly
hands off "slut"! I *must* have this word; how else am I to
refer to those folks who get even a little more than I do?
While I live and breathe we'll have plenty of bejabber on
things that matter, worry not a wink over that.
david carlton
> 2^10 is a very big number, but then there are still the toes to think about.
I know of one mathematician (or "mathematician", but that's another
issue) who learned to count on his fingers on base three. That would
be enough for all but the truly exceptional among us.
david carlton
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Michael Bryan
>words "promiscuous" and "slut", and truly worry about things
>that matter.
Retire "promiscuous" if you must, but "slut" is a term near and dear to
my heart! It's a *positive* term. Really!
;-)
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Nelson Minar
>> 2^10 is a very big number, but then there are still the toes to think about.
>I know of one mathematician (or "mathematician", but that's another
>issue) who learned to count on his fingers on base three. That would
>be enough for all but the truly exceptional among us.
3^10 == 59049. That's even enough for Wilt Chamberlain!
but I'm confused - how did he count in base 3? Did each finger have 3
states, one finger-up, one fingertip-down, and one whole-finger-down?
How uncomfortable.
When I was but a tyke they taught us Chisembop (or whatever) in
elementary school. It was all the rage for a few years, a sort of base
5 counting scheme on the fingers that gives one the capability to
count up to 100 without much trouble. (right hand is 1-10, with thumb
indicating +5, left hand is 10-100, thumb indicating +50). It's
actually a fairly complex system: people learn to multiply much like
on an abacus, and there's some extension (invovling knuckles, I think)
to bring the range of numbers up to a million or so. I still use it,
although I sometimes shift it to base 2, depending on what I need.
For a count of partners, though. It sort of depends on the definition
of "sexual partner", but I know one hand of chisembop isn't enough,
and one hand in base 2 is enough.
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