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Letter: Letters: Sexual discrepancy

Published 15 August 1992

From JOHN CHAPMAN

Regarding the statistics of sexual partners. A village has 50 prostitutes,
150 nuns and 100 bachelors. The bachelors each savour all the prostitutes,
the nuns remain chaste. Thus the men have had an average of 50 partners
while the women have an average of (50×100+150×0)/200=25.

John Chapman Perth, Western Australia

Issue no. 1834 published 15 August 1992

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