Sexual · Question 40 of 100

What “Had sexual intercourse with five or more people?” means

Item 40 on the 100-question Rice Purity Test reads “Had sexual intercourse with five or more people?”. 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 40 raises item 39's threshold: it asks whether you have had intercourse with five or more people in total. It is the highest partner count the checklist asks about, and no item goes beyond five.

Where people disagree about what counts

There is nothing ambiguous about the number. What people do notice is that the scale stops here — a taker with five partners and a taker with fifty check exactly the same two boxes at items 39 and 40. That ceiling is a real limitation of the checklist as a measure of anything.

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 40 fits with the items around it

Item 40 completes the threshold pair with item 39. The checklist then leaves counting behind and moves to specific circumstances at items 41 to 43 before returning to partners one last time at 45 and 46.

Item 39, before this one Had sexual intercourse with three or more people? Item 41, after this one Been walked in on while having sexual intercourse?

How it affects the score

Every question has the same one-point effect. Checking item 40 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 40

Is there an item above five partners?

No. Item 40 is the highest count on the checklist, so five partners and fifty partners produce exactly the same two checked boxes.

Do items 39 and 40 stack?

Yes. Anyone who has reached five has also reached three, so both apply and the pair costs two points.

Does the checklist ask about partner count anywhere else?

Only at item 37, which counts two different people within twenty-four hours rather than over a lifetime.

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