Sexual · Question 13 of 100

What “Kissed someone below the belt?” means

Item 13 on the 100-question Rice Purity Test reads “Kissed someone below the belt?”. 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 13 asks whether you have kissed someone below the waist. "Below the belt" is the checklist's euphemism for the genital area, and the item is generally read as describing kissing rather than the sustained act that item 18 covers as oral sex. It is written from one side only — the person doing the kissing — unlike the reciprocal wording of items 9, 11 and 12.

Where people disagree about what counts

The main disagreement is where the boundary sits between this item and item 18. Some takers treat item 13 as any kiss below the waist, including the stomach or thigh; others treat it as a lighter version of oral sex. The overlap is real and the checklist does not resolve it, which is why some people check both items for a single experience and others check only item 18.

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 13 fits with the items around it

Item 13 completes the descent that started at item 12 and is the last of the kissing items before the checklist changes register entirely at item 14 and 15. Item 18, forty items later, revisits the same territory in explicit terms, so the two items are best read as a pair separated by the list's ordering rather than by subject.

Item 12, before this one Kissed or been kissed on the breast? Item 14, after this one Kissed for more than two hours consecutively?

How it affects the score

Every question has the same one-point effect. Checking item 13 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 13

What does "kissed someone below the belt" mean?

It is a euphemism for kissing below the waist, in the genital area. The checklist covers the fuller act separately at item 18.

Is item 13 the same as oral sex?

Not quite. Item 18 is the explicit item for oral sex. Item 13 is generally read as the narrower act of kissing, though the two overlap and the checklist never draws the line.

Do I check both item 13 and item 18?

Many takers do, on the reading that one is contained in the other. Others check only item 18. Since the test is self-scored, either approach is internally consistent as long as you apply it once.

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