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Originally Posted by Suave
Have sex with a couple of promiscuous people, and you could have indirectly had sex with half of your country.  |
I think if you asked, on average, how many sex partners separate a random pair of people in the U.S. (or within a state or within a city), you would find that number to be alarmingly small. Within any high school or university, it will be smaller still.
For example any two students within a university might be separated by, say, three sex partners. In other words, there are so many links on the sex network that you can always find a link where the average pair is separated by about three people.
I went to a small college, and there was a class field trip that I remember where one of the women on the bus had previously had sex with all but two of the guys on the bus. I was one of the two, but not for long
But my girlfriend had slept with one of the guys, so I was just two links away from that promiscuous woman. For most of the guys on the bus, we were all one link away from each other.
The "degrees of sex separation" would be a good indicator of the social atmosphere of a place. You could have it printed on real estate brochures
