Sexual · Question 16 of 100

What “Seen or touched a private part?” means

Item 16 on the 100-question Rice Purity Test reads “Seen or touched a private part?”. 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 16 asks whether you have seen or touched another person's genitals in a sexual context. The reciprocal, two-verb wording makes this one of the broadest items on the checklist: seeing alone is enough, and touching alone is enough, so a very wide range of experiences resolve to this single box.

Where people disagree about what counts

The breadth is also the problem. Read literally, the item could sweep in non-sexual situations — a locker room, a medical setting, caring for a family member. Essentially every taker excludes those, on the understanding that the checklist is asking about sexual experience throughout. The written item does not say so.

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 16 fits with the items around it

Item 16 is the gateway item for the block that follows. Items 17 to 21 all describe more specific versions of contact that item 16 covers in general terms, so a taker who checks any of 17 through 21 has almost certainly checked 16 as well. This nesting is why scores tend to drop several points at once in this stretch.

Item 15, before this one Played a game involving stripping? Item 17, after this one Had or given a hand job?

How it affects the score

Every question has the same one-point effect. Checking item 16 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 16

Does a locker room or a medical exam count for item 16?

Essentially nobody counts those. The checklist is a record of sexual experience, and non-sexual nudity is read as outside its scope even though the item does not say so explicitly.

Is seeing enough, or does it require touching?

Seeing is enough. The item lists both verbs, so either one on its own qualifies.

Does item 16 include photos or video?

Most takers read it as in-person. Digital material is covered separately by items 53 and 54, which is a good indication that item 16 is meant to describe physical presence.

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