What “Kissed a non-family member?” means
Item 5 on the 100-question Rice Purity Test reads “Kissed a non-family member?”. 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 5 opens the kissing sequence and is deliberately the broadest of them. It asks whether you have kissed anyone outside your family — any kiss, anywhere, including a kiss on the cheek. The family exclusion exists so that ordinary affection between relatives does not register on the scale.
Where people disagree about what counts
Two readings circulate. The literal reading counts any non-family kiss at all, including a friendly cheek kiss in cultures where that is a standard greeting. The narrower reading counts only romantic kisses. The narrow reading is more common in practice, but the item as written supports the broad one, and the checklist does not settle it.
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 5 fits with the items around it
Items 5 to 8 are a deliberate escalation ladder: any kiss, then on the lips, then french kissing, then french kissing in public. Each step adds one condition to the one before it, so a taker who checks item 8 has almost always checked 5, 6 and 7 as well. That nesting is why this stretch of the checklist moves scores in blocks of three or four points.
How it affects the score
Every question has the same one-point effect. Checking item 5 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 5
Does a kiss on the cheek count for question 5?
Why does the item say non-family member?
Do I check item 5 if I have only ever kissed one person?
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