Like Sultana and shesus, I can count my number of partners on one hand, so it's hard not to know, and I can't imagine not knowing.
I am reminded of the SATC episode where Miranda got chlamydia. Her number was quite high--but considering my age and relative number of sex partners, if I stayed single until I was 38, I would have a number equal to that of Miranda's, and I certainly don't think of myself as a slut.
I had a friend I never thought of as a slut until she did something slutty. She had slept with a lot of guys, and that never bothered me, until she slept with a guy I had had a friends with benefits relationship with. What bothered me was that she had sworn up and down she would never sleep with him (she has kind of gotten around with our group of guys) out of all of our guy friends, yet she did. I just can't imagine disrespecting myself so much that I would let myself become the group bicycle.
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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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