Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To think less of those who slept with a lot of people

193 replies

AIBUISJUSTASBADASAITA · 08/09/2026 17:43

I don’t actually care how many people someone slept with, but if they choose to tell me, I think less of them

This could be at least partially caused by someone once telling me slept with someone from each continent and he is would now like to hit his next target of sleeping with someone pregnant

That’s to say that, if I really think about it, I don’t feel most upstanding members of society engage in sleeping with hundreds of people and counting, for various reasons

That’s because for most regular people, once you’ve encountered the time and effort it takes to, for example, build and progress a career / raise a family / build a business / travel / excel at a hobby / maintain friendships and family relationships / find lasting connections and fall in love / get a degree etc etc, there’s not that much time left to sleep with an insane number of people

I also get squeamish about diseases thinking of the sort of sex lives those who manage to sleep with hundreds lead

Finally, I’ve met a few women who clearly thought the number of people they slept with validated them in some way and felt it was worth mentioning. It was volunteered in a way as if to say “I am so attractive / cool / outgoing / sexual” that I’ve slept with such a high number of people. Yeah, not the brag you think it is…

AIBU, if you’re being completely honest?

OP posts:
Yesitsweird · 08/09/2026 20:43

FateAmenableToChange · 08/09/2026 20:42

I don’t actually care how judgemental people are, but if they choose to tell me, I think less of them.

😂

You are judging the judgemental people. And so you become one of us.

The circle of infinity

marlboro · 08/09/2026 20:43

Yesitsweird · 08/09/2026 20:41

I'm not jealous of any of those things either

You clearly missed the point of that conversation 🙄

Yesitsweird · 08/09/2026 20:44

marlboro · 08/09/2026 20:43

You clearly missed the point of that conversation 🙄

Humour sadly lost on you then is it?

Catza · 08/09/2026 20:44

That’s because for most regular people, once you’ve encountered the time and effort it takes to, for example, build and progress a career / raise a family / build a business / travel / excel at a hobby / maintain friendships and family relationships / find lasting connections and fall in love / get a degree etc etc, there’s not that much time left to sleep with an insane number of people

It really doesn't take all that long to sleep with someone. And not all people are raising a family. But building a carer, maintaining friendships, travelling and excelling at hobbies still leaves plenty of time in an average year for sex. What material difference does it make if one person sleeps with the same person once a month or with 12 different people over the course of a year, averaging 240 people over a 20 year period?

deancastielsam · 08/09/2026 20:44

Did I completely miss the point? Someone who has had sex with someone from every continent is only 7 people (plus the others). Agree the ick would be that they set themselves a challenge but the actual number of 7 isn’t many.

marlboro · 08/09/2026 20:45

Yesitsweird · 08/09/2026 20:44

Humour sadly lost on you then is it?

youre not funny?

likelysuspect · 08/09/2026 20:48

You're brave OP.

Sacredbirman · 08/09/2026 20:52

I read a post on here yesterday about a woman who had met what she thought was a lovely man. They got into discussions about how many they had slept with and she had been in the swinging scene in the past with a previous partner but isn’t in to it any more. I don’t know if they slept together before or after this conversation but they did have sex and then he said she wasn’t relationship material. That was very judgemental and it shouldn’t actually matter.
I don’t have a huge body count because I’ve had 2 LTR since I was 16 - 9 years then almost 20, and now in a 5 year relationship. If I hadn’t met people that I liked I think there would have been many more.

AIBUISJUSTASBADASAITA · 08/09/2026 20:55

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

TheBossOfMe · 08/09/2026 20:57

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

There can’t be that many people who you know who have an extreme number though and are openly talking about it, surely? I’m assuming you’re not asking them. If you are you’re really a bit rude!

LlynTegid · 08/09/2026 21:00

I don't think there is any one answer to this.

I am more likely to judge someone on the basis of one or two choices not the number. Any man who took part in Bonnie Blue's sexual events, any woman who willingly had a relationship with Russell Brand, for example.

WerewolfOfLoudon · 08/09/2026 21:00

Yesitsweird · 08/09/2026 19:23

But why would you be splitting up with someone 28 times at the 6 month mark. Something would be amiss!

People have sex without being in a relationship.

How do people find the time to spend hours in hairdressers, beauticians, nail salons or getting a fake bake - all things women do to feel validated and attractive - @AIBUISJUSTASBADASAITA ? Someone could just have sex with a different person every six weeks and it would be far less time consuming. Probably more fun too.

TaptheCap · 08/09/2026 21:04

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

I honestly don't understand how the number of people I or anyone else have or haven't slept with has any bearing on a person's worth, character or integrity - unless they're cheating/ sleeping with someone in a relationship?

Timeforachange26 · 08/09/2026 21:06

Error404FucksNotFound · 08/09/2026 17:49

I dont care at all how many people someone else has slept with. I dont judge them because I dont care.
You have to care about something in order to judge people for it.
Nobody judges anyone for something that they genuinely dont give a shit about.

This exactly. I can't really see why anyone would care if it didn't affect them

TaptheCap · 08/09/2026 21:06

LlynTegid · 08/09/2026 21:00

I don't think there is any one answer to this.

I am more likely to judge someone on the basis of one or two choices not the number. Any man who took part in Bonnie Blue's sexual events, any woman who willingly had a relationship with Russell Brand, for example.

Yes! A man who has been with a prostitute or a woman who has cheated are much more of a concern to me than the number.

ImogenBrocklehurst · 08/09/2026 21:07

AIBUISJUSTASBADASAITA · 08/09/2026 20:11

actually the opinions are pretty divided😉 And yes indeed, I asked whether I was being unreasonable and your monologue about not wanting to be my friend comes into it how exactly?

Issues with critical thinking AND reading it seems.

BoundaryGirl3939 · 08/09/2026 21:08

A man I know publicly claimed to have slept with 100s of women, and it's what I think of whenever I see or hear of him. I think I've judged him and just can't take him seriously....all of think of is what he said. He did nothing illegal, but if he would have kept his mouth shut, his private life would have remained completely private.

LilacBalloons · 08/09/2026 21:09

I also want to add to this thread that I have absolutely no idea how many people my friends, family and acquaintances have slept with. It's inconceivable that it would even come up, because nobody cares and we're not nosy perverts. How/ why is OP even having all these prurient conversations in the first place?!

1coconut2coconut3coconut4 · 08/09/2026 21:09

Numbers matter not at all to me but the feeling it is something to brag about would bother me more. How would people who have slept with loads of people even know? Obviously you'd know it was quite a few but knowing it is 107 or whatever would be quite odd and suggest someone who sees it as something to brag about and that they just want to 'win' you and then move on. Though OP don't agree with your point on who has the time and it suggests not following healthy pursuits - if you were a uni student on a 3 year course say you could sleep with a different person every other week and end up on over 100 people just during that 3year period, say on a night out every other Saturday. You could easily be training to be a brain scientist in the meantime.

Nevs · 08/09/2026 21:10

Finally, I’ve met a few women who clearly thought the number of people they slept with validated them in some way and felt it was worth mentioning. It was volunteered in a way as if to say “I am so attractive / cool / outgoing / sexual” that I’ve slept with such a high number of people. Yeah, not the brag you think it is…

If a woman wants to sleep around purely for pleasure, it’s not my personal taste and standards but I don’t give it too much thought.

However if she volunteers that information and delivers it in the way you suggesting (bragging, implying she is attractive and cool) then she is outright foolish. Men are highly driven biologically to have sex and will sleep with anything (even someone of below average looks) if it’s offered on a plate. It is not a reflection of your attractiveness or charming persona.
I’ve met women like this and the delusions continue until they hit a certain age and then they to do some soul searching. They’ll learn themselves in time.

AquamarinePearlGold · 08/09/2026 21:16

EmailsaysOOO · 08/09/2026 18:00

I'm a bit hypocritical because I also have a similar response but I was a bit of a raver back in the day. It's not so much a moral.judgement,.more that I think they're going to look back one day and wonder what they achieved from it, but yes it's double standards for me to think that way. .

I like to think people today take fewer risks, as in they use contraception and women don't allow themselves to go to unknown locations with complete strangers although no idea why I'm assuming thats true. May not be.

What has being a raver got to do with it? Genuinely confused.

AquamarinePearlGold · 08/09/2026 21:19

LlynTegid · 08/09/2026 21:00

I don't think there is any one answer to this.

I am more likely to judge someone on the basis of one or two choices not the number. Any man who took part in Bonnie Blue's sexual events, any woman who willingly had a relationship with Russell Brand, for example.

RB is a disgrace

TotaleclipseinFrance · 08/09/2026 21:32

It's not so much judgement it's the boastfulness aspect of it.

If I find out a woman has had 100 guys, fine.
I'm not going to think she's a bad person, heck she may be kinder, more soft-hearted person than a woman with a low notch count but what gets me is the bragging as if it's an achievement.

I worked in a bar as a student, after a while the guys forget you're there, so you hear all sorts while you're clearing up etc and they get increasingly drunk.
The derogatory way they talked about their conquests was an eye opener.
Triple baggers, only after ten pints, only from behind and so on.
Some of them really aren't fussy when it comes to who they shag.
Believe me the ones who were fussy were in the minority.

It's fine to have lots of men for pleasure but really it's f*ing easy and not an achievement. At all.
Certainly nothing to brag about like climbing Everest.

Doesn't make you better than any other woman, that's for sure.

JHound · 08/09/2026 21:38

Error404FucksNotFound · 08/09/2026 18:19

Are they the same people on both threads giving conflicting opinions?
If not then it means nothing more than different people having different views and doesnt prove or suggest anything.

I never get posts like the one that PP made. Different groups of people have different opinions. Why are they surprised by that?

Wiltedgeranium · 08/09/2026 21:40

If I'm honest, I think the last time I probably judged someone for having lots of partners (did we establish what lots was?) I was probably about 15 and mainly envious, because i would have quite liked to have had sex.

Since then it's just been part of life. What are you judging them for? Sex is fun. People can be fun. If sex is fun with fun people, they can become your friends. Sex is one of our biological imperatives.

I judge people who are twats. But sharing your twat with lots of people, or poking lots of twats doesn't warrant my strong eyebrow of disdain.