Sexual · Question 24 of 100

What “Had sexual intercourse 10 or more times?” means

Item 24 on the 100-question Rice Purity Test reads “Had sexual intercourse 10 or more times?”. 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 24 asks whether you have had intercourse ten or more times in total, across your whole life and across any number of partners. It is a lifetime running total, which makes it different in kind from item 23, and different again from item 44, which counts ten or more times with one specific person.

Where people disagree about what counts

The count is easy to state and hard to compute. Almost nobody keeps an exact tally, so in practice this item is answered by estimate. Takers who are near the boundary tend to leave it unchecked if they are unsure, on the reading that the item asks for confidence rather than a guess.

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 24 fits with the items around it

Item 24 is the lifetime counterpart of item 23's single-night count, and it is directly comparable to item 44 near the end of the intercourse run. Read together, the three items measure the same act across three different windows: one night, one lifetime, and one partner.

Item 23, before this one Had sexual intercourse three or more times in one night? Item 25, after this one Had sexual intercourse in four or more positions?

How it affects the score

Every question has the same one-point effect. Checking item 24 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 24

Does item 24 mean ten times with one person?

No. That is item 44. Item 24 is a lifetime total across all partners.

What if I am not sure whether I have reached ten?

The checklist has no guidance. Most takers leave an item unchecked when they are genuinely unsure, since an unchecked box is scored identically whether the answer is no or you would rather not say.

Does item 24 include oral or anal sex?

It follows whatever reading of intercourse you applied at item 22. Oral sex has its own item at 18 and anal sex at 47, which suggests item 24 is meant to track item 22 specifically.

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