Lloydspharmacy in the UK has developed the Sex Degrees of Separation Calculator to highlight the dangers of unprotected sex. Indeed, according to this calculator, a 35-year-old woman, having “slept” with 5 men during her life still has 1,063,263 indirect sexual partners! What to be surprised and potentially contaminated!
Surely you have already heard of the six degrees of separation between people! This theory explains the possibility that anyone in the world can be connected to anyone else, through a chain of individual relationships comprising at most five other links.
This is the inspiration for the calculator! By responding to questionnaire below, you will be able to know the indirect number of sexual partners that you have had. The calculator is not a diagnostic tool but is used to highlight how you may be exposed to STIs if you have any symptoms. unprotected sex.
To calculate the number of your indirect sexual partners, you just need to enter your age, gender, and the number of sexual partners you have had, as well as their ages. On your account!
The latest figures from the UK Health Agency show rates of sexually transmitted diseases are very high among young adults aged 15 to 24. They account for 57% of new cases of gonorrhea and 56% of genital warts diagnoses, according to the same article.