Sexual · Question 10 of 100

What “Kissed horizontally?” means

Item 10 on the 100-question Rice Purity Test reads “Kissed horizontally?”. Here is what the wording covers, where readers reasonably disagree about it, and exactly how much it moves your score.

Guidance written and reviewed 2026-07-26

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What the question is asking

Item 10 asks whether you have kissed someone while both of you were lying down — on a bed, a couch, the floor, or the grass. "Horizontally" is a euphemism for the position, not for anything else. The item exists because lying down while kissing is treated on this checklist as a step past kissing while standing or sitting, on the reasoning that it usually implies both privacy and time.

Where people disagree about what counts

This is one of the most misread items on the whole list. It does not mean sex, and it does not require that anything beyond kissing happened. The genuine ambiguity is narrower: whether one person lying down and the other leaning over counts, and whether reclining on a sofa is horizontal enough. Most takers read the item as requiring both people to be lying down.

The test is self-scored and nobody else ever sees your answer, so the only thing that matters is applying one reading consistently across the whole checklist.

How item 10 fits with the items around it

Item 10 sits between kissing on the neck (item 9) and giving or receiving a hickey (item 11). Read together, the three items describe the same scene — extended kissing in a private setting — from three different angles: where the kiss landed, what position you were in, and what it left behind.

Item 9, before this one Kissed on the neck? Item 11, after this one Given or received a hickey?

How it affects the score

Every question has the same one-point effect. Checking item 10 subtracts one point from the starting score of 100. Leaving it unchecked subtracts nothing, and no item on the checklist is weighted more heavily than any other.

Final score = 100 − total checked boxes

The final number never identifies this answer or any other individual answer — it is a count, so it discards which items were selected the moment it is calculated. Read the full scoring guide or look up an exact result on the 0–100 score chart.

Questions about item 10

What does "kissed horizontally" mean on the Rice Purity Test?

It means kissing while lying down, as opposed to standing or sitting up. It is about body position only and does not imply that anything further happened.

Does kissing horizontally mean having sex?

No. That is the most common misreading of the item. Intercourse is asked about separately at item 22, and the checklist never uses a euphemism where it has a plain item available.

Does lying on a couch count for item 10?

Most takers count it, since the item is about being horizontal rather than about the furniture. A shared reclining position on a sofa is generally read as qualifying.

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