Why Do People Keep Lists of Past Sex Partners?
glamour.com. Typically the consensus, as with so much on the internet, is a smug “that’s juvenile,” which always gives me pause. Scratch any social media site and you’ll find plenty of adults admitting, with only a soupçon of self-deprecation, that their moms still make their dentist appointments.
But list-keeping is where we draw the line?The topic piques my interest not so much for its supposed immaturity, but because I wonder if it’s one of those things that people do in for plot’s sake but never in real life, like writing your vows the night before the wedding, or meeting someone at a certain spot at a certain time some years in the future instead of just calling them.
On , Rufus and Lily compare lists (in Lily’s case, an edited list); in the second season of American Vandal, investigating a suspect’s alibi involves finding the listed initials of everyone Sarah Pearson hooked up with carved into a cabin at camp.
Sex lists are more or less the backbones of Little Black Book and What’s Your Number?All of which got me thinking about “body counts,” which come up even more often ( has had many; ’s, etc.).
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