A MAN is only asking his date how many sexual partners she has had because of his voracious intellectual curiosity, not because he will judge her on the answer.
Despite posing the question insistently, Jack Browne has maintained that he is only inquiring into Lucy Parry’s sexual history as an independent researcher, not as someone who is invested in sleeping with her himself.
Browne said: “I’m a lover of data and of science, that’s all. I’m just gathering information to add to my data pool. Not because I feel threatened by your past.”
“It’s weird for you to act like that kind of thing is private. To me it’s the same as the number of rings on a tree, the carbon particles per million in a cubic feet of air, or the success rate of the pick-up artists on the podcasts I listen to.
“I definitely don’t have an ideal number in my mind that I would find appropriate. It’s just interesting. And not interesting because I can use it to generalise about you as a person, but because of the truths it speaks about human sexuality.
“Let’s get that figure out there and then start breaking it down into sub-categories, just to make sure my data’s untainted by bias. The first one would be blowjobs.”
Browne explained he was reluctant to share his own number of sexual partners because he was not currently conducting research in that area and so failed to see how it was relevant.
