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Average Brit has sex with 2.8 million people!

By Lucy Halfhead on Wednesday 23 September 2009

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Sex, Relationship, Health, Marie Claire News

The average British adult has indirectly had sexual intercourse with more than 2.8 million people, it has been claimed.

A new Internet calculator allows people to work out the total number of indirect sexual partners they have had over their lifetime. Men claim to have had an average of nine sexual partners while the average women admits to 6.3 lovers, giving an overall average of 7.65.

However, experts claim that by having unprotected sexual intercourse, people are potentially exposed to the sexual infections of hundreds of thousands of others. The calculator has been developed by national chemist chain Lloydspharmacy to help people understand the risks of unprotected intercourse.

According to the Health Protection Agency, cases of sexually transmitted infections rose last year by half a per cent to 399,738 and cases of chlamydia increased by eight per cent between 2006 and 2008.

The calculator, which uses data collected from more than 6,000 British adults, is called 'sex degrees of separation', a reference to the famous theory first proposed by Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy which states that no one is more than six steps removed from another.

The launch of the calculator coincides with the introduction of Lloydspharmacy's Relationship Screen, an online postal service which allows people and their partners to be tested for chlamydia - the most common sexually transmitted disease - gonorrhoea and HIV before committing to full intimacy.

Clare Kerr, head of sexual health at Lloydspharmacy said: ‘When we have sex with someone, we are, in effect, not only sleeping with them, but also their previous partners and their partners' previous partners, and so on.'

The majority of sexually transmitted diseases are easy to rectify, but if left untreated can have serious implications.

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Wednesday 23 September 2009

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Comment by Alison Keeler on September 23 14:26

So this article is trying to make us paranoid about sex and then at the end admits "the majority of sexually transmitted diseases are easy to rectify". For example Chlamydia is a trivial infection and of course if you leave it untreated it can be serious but then so can lots of other diseases.

Sometimes I feel like we are being made to feel guilty for having sex. There's nothing wrong with sex, it's the most natural thing any one of us can do.
Comment by Peter Kmoch on September 30 23:30