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HACK: Have You Ever Lied About Your Sex Count?

Have you ever lied about your sex count?

Ollie, have you ever lied about how many people you’ve slept with? Your sex count, today? Really?

Did you exaggerate or did you understate it?

You half it. Always say half, at least.

If not, why lower?

Well, because it’s not appropriate to say how many people you may have or may have not slept with.

Have you ever brought up the count, as in the count of the number of sexual partners you’ve had?

Well, yeah, definitely. It’s definitely something that eventually comes up, and sometimes it can be extremely awkward. And you’re like, “I’ve slept with a lot more people than you,” or “You’ve slept with a lot fewer people than me.” It can be awkward, and people can judge you on the fact of how many people you have slept with.

Have you been in a situation where your count was a lot higher than the guy’s?

Well, yeah, I have. I have exactly been that… he’s speaking from personal experience. Yes, I have. Not that many, but enough to be an issue.

Yeah, if you’re in a relationship with a girl, you don’t want to know. She wants to go on with a relationship, but if a girl asks you, you have to answer. Not always truthfully.

You’ve lied?

I have not lied.

Now, would you lie?

Maybe in the future.

Actually, definitely in the future.

Depends how your count comes along.

Exactly. Depends who you’re dealing with.

When you guys first got together, did you talk about how many other people you’d slept with at that point?

I don’t think we’ve ever really talked about it, to be honest. I think it’s sort of… your past is in your past, and it really only matters about the future for us, or for us anyway. But, yeah, I don’t think we’ve ever really talked about it.

No, we just don’t talk about it because we just… yeah, in the past, we just don’t. Don’t like going back and talking about, like, what, like, who he’s been with and stuff like that, because I just want to think about us together and not have the visuals in my head of who he’s been with.

Do you think it should be something that’s discussed?

I think it’s a good one, because you don’t really want to stay closed up about that sort of thing. And I like being open, like completely open, yeah. Because it just leaves, like, no awkwardness, no weirdness, I guess.

Well, that was, I guess, an awkward conversation then?

So it’s kind of something I’ve kind of ignored. So I’ve not spoken about it since.

Was her count higher than yours?

Um, it was at that point, yes.

Yeah. How did you feel about that?

A bit of a rookie. I actually said it was less than what it was.

Why?

Because my current partner was much, much less than what I was, so I just wanted to be even, I guess.

So you let him answer the question first and then you pitched in around the same level?

Yeah, but then he said that he had this theory that men, whatever number they say, is actually half, and whatever number women say is actually double.

And was he right?

Yes.

So do you think he gave you the real answer?

Yeah.

Wow.

Gus and Amy, have either of you ever lied about your sex count to each other?

Yeah.

Why not?

We’ve never talked about it.

We haven’t talked about it.

Let’s have the conversation.

Should we have or shouldn’t we? Is that the question?

I don’t know.

I don’t know how many she knows, but how many I… I haven’t actually got an official count.

Quick, think about it.

No, I don’t want to think about it.

But do you think it’s something you don’t want to talk about usually in a relationship, or is it something that does come up?

No, I don’t know. I think it probably does come up. If you want to know, you want to know. But otherwise, it’s just like, I mean, everyone’s got a past, it doesn’t really matter.

Sometimes you’re asking for trouble.

Exactly. Like, you want to ask for something that is then going to be a problem.