Sexual · Question 27 of 100

What “Had sexual intercourse without a condom?” means

Item 27 on the 100-question Rice Purity Test reads “Had sexual intercourse without a condom?”. 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 27 asks whether you have had intercourse without a condom. It is the only item on the checklist that touches directly on sexual health, and it is one of the very few that people take as a prompt to think about something beyond the score.

Where people disagree about what counts

The item makes no distinction between an unprotected encounter with a stranger and unprotected sex inside a long-term relationship where both partners have been tested and are using another method of contraception. Those are very different situations and the checklist scores them identically, which is a fair criticism of the item as written.

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 27 fits with the items around it

Item 27 closes the descriptive block that started at item 25 and is the last item about the act itself before the checklist turns to setting at item 28. Its natural companions are item 48 on pregnancy scares and item 66 on buying contraceptives, both of which sit much later on the list.

Item 26, before this one Had sexual intercourse with a virgin? Item 28, after this one Had sexual intercourse in the morning?

How it affects the score

Every question has the same one-point effect. Checking item 27 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 27

Does item 27 count if we were using other contraception?

Yes. The item names condoms specifically and takes no account of other methods, which is one of the more commonly criticised aspects of its wording.

Does it count inside a long-term relationship?

Under the plain wording, yes. The checklist draws no distinction based on the relationship, which means it scores very different situations the same way.

Is this item a health assessment?

No. Nothing on this checklist is a health, safety, or medical assessment, and no score should be read as one. If you have a concern about sexual health, a clinician is the right place to take it.

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