Fun & Famous

HOW MANY MEN HAVE YOU DONE IT WITH?

Think of a casual Friday with plenty of wine in sight. At the Amayzine offices, that comes with juicy conversation topics. This question, for example: how many men (or women) have you done it with. But the serious business then, huh? Sex. Wise nose that I am, I waited for the score of the other Amayzers. You should know that I was single for five years before my love and I started dating. FIVE YEARS, with an attempt to study and living in Amsterdam. Yes, then you do something sometimes. But how honest should you be about that? My best friend knows, but I hope he has forgotten. My partner in crime knows too, by the way. And no, he didn't get the censored version. Just brutally honest, the result up to and including him. The rest of my inner circle has to do some pluses and minuses to figure it out.

Do you tell that? I find it difficult, because at what quota do you lean towards proper and when do you go towards femme fatale? The men of the Netherlands score an average of 7.9 and the women an average of 6.8 in bed partners. But the French, they are just fiery. Seventeen different amores on the counter. Well, that’s what you get with such a romantic nature and the city of love just a stone's throw away.

“Unfortunately, have a nice life”

If you have a loved one sitting on the couch, then you should at least have sex once a week, and actually more often. But let's keep it at one, because that's the healthiest (look here for a moment). Then you’re looking at about, grab it well, 52 times of sex per year. Now suppose you are single and quite on fire, what do you do then? And more importantly, how do you keep that somewhat within average limits and at a respectable number? If you go out flirting hard on the weekend, there’s a good chance you’ll come across something appetizing. Right? Now it turns out from another study that women prefer not to have friends who have had more than 20 different sexual partners. Why is that, guys? We actually have nothing to do with that, do we? It would be something if I went through a checklist with my buddies to check how many they’ve pulled into bed. Ah, 21? Unfortunately, have a nice life. You wouldn’t do that, would you?

That you have an opinion about that reminds me of the rhyme in those rhyme books from back in the day: if a man has had a hundred women, then he’s cool, but if a woman has had a hundred men, then she’s a… exactly, that. Because honestly, who cares about a man who has been having a good time (Jeroen Pauw, 200-plus)? No one, I think.

I believe in the principle that you should mainly do what makes you feel good (ha, exactly that), but it’s also primadebima to keep it to yourself. So dear everyone… No 6.8 but also no 100. Fine, right?