When a girl tells you how many partners she's had, it's usually...
43%
We're all a bunch of liars.
- Renee Lucas, 30, from New York, NY
"No one's actual number ever matches up with the guess." - Doris Parker, 27, from Springfield, MA
"Ha" - Jennifer Manghisi, 27, from New York, NY
"Haha, why do you want to know that?" - Senait Mengstab, 30, from San Francisco, CA
"she doesn't usually count the 'non' relationship guys! Lol!" - Sandy Tragos, 32, from Chicago, IL
"I don't think anyone tells the truth." - Kimone Campbell, 27, from Palm Beach, FL
"She never tells." - Maya Calaway, 24, from Boston, MA
"She probably doesn't want to hurt your ego or make you think too much about it." - Justine Bour, 26, from Chicago, IL
"No one wants to admit their true number!" - Laura Lefkowitz, 35, from New York, NY
"Taking the fifth on this one..." - JoAnna Di Tullio, 24, from Boston, MA
"Also, who really remembers?" - Alison Dichter, 31, from New York, NY
"She doesn't want to look like a prude or a slut so she finds a happy medium." - Jill Hanner, 34, from Astoria, NY
"Just don't ask the question!!" - Ashley Potter, 26, from Milwaukee, WI
"You add to your number, we subtract from ours, who knows why." - Wendy Liu, 23, from Alhambra, CA
"It's true, I ratted us out." - Sara Koch, 30, from Youngstown, OH
"No one answers this question honestly. No one." - Becca Schepps, 29, from Brooklyn, NY
"And who is counting." - Elise Stiller, 36, from Seaford, NY
"...a competitive response!" - Priya Massand, 30, from Flushing, NY
"Ugh... the numbers tend to be 'skewed' on both sides!" - Claire Watkins, 25, from Santa Cruz, CA
"Please... like you're telling the truth." - Gina Kim, 24, from San Diego, CA
"Oh, don't act like you men are all so innocent." - Julienne Irons, 27, from Los Angeles, CA
"You are not getting the truth out of me; I have anything to hide but some things I keep to myself." - Dominique Jackson, 29, from Los Angeles, CA
"Sometimes you forget people on purpose." - Grace Kang, 29, from Los Angeles, CA
"You don't want to know." - Kate Cohen, 27, from Syosset, NY
"Who cares." - Amy S., 25, from Chicago, IL
"Plus or minus 20%. Though I am always honest and many other girls are, too..." - Jacquelyn Tillotson, 31, from Miami Beach, FL
"No need to even ask." - Kira Wilkinson, 27, from Washington, DC
"No one can handle the truth." - Deeana Lowe-Chin, 24, from Miami, FL
"Do you really even want the truth if she isn't a virgin???" - Corey G, 25, from Chicago, IL
"Usually people are embarrassed, small or large number." - Kristin Castro, 24, from San Francisco, CA
"It's the truth...." - Jackie Rivera, 25, from Miami, FL
"I'm honest, but that's only because it's neither here nor there." - Genevieve Melzer, 27, from San Francisco, CA
"No judgement." - Ashley Becker, 26, from New York, NY and Miami, FL
"I don't lie about important details, but you will never fully understand the number!" - Marianna Branda, 23, from Miami, FL
"Some can be honest as much as some can lie." - Jessica G, 25, from Boca Raton, FL
"Are you supposed to keep track ?" - Jessica Barrutia, 24, from Chicago, IL
"She is probably only counting the relationship-related partners." - Marisa Zupan, 27, from Brooklyn, NY
"Plus, minus whatever - it's all an 'interpretation' right?" - Ashley Hayes, 24, from Los Angeles, CA
"It's hard to always be honest." - Jen Gsell, 29, from Reston, VA
"What you don't know, won't hurt you. and really, it's none of your business (and vise versa)." - Erika Thomas, 25, from Miami, FL
":X" - Amber Sellers, 33, from Brooklyn, NY
"We know it matters to you, and we wouldn't want to let you down." - Ashley Woolley, 25, from Chicago, IL
"It usually depends on how many she thinks you've had." - Emily Woolf, 26, from Brooklyn, NY
"If you aren't the one and only we know you don't want to hear the truth." - Karoline D'Angola, 24, from Bernardsville, NJ
"I wouldn't trust the first thing you hear." - Samantha Conniff, 24, from Brooklyn, NY
"I haven't the slightest idea..depends on the person." - Rosie Dehoyos, 29, from Dallas, TX
"We don't want to tell you."
41%
Dead-on.
- Sara Jagodzinski, 24, from Carol Stream, IL
"We don't feel the need to lie about that sort of thing." - Luana Suciu, 25, from Boston, MA
"At least in my case." - Vanessa Jeong, 28, from San Leandro, CA
"Unless it's a one-night-stand. Then she may have reason to lie." - Susie Jones, 29, from Naples, Fl
"We are pretty thorough." - Angela Lee, 23, from Cerritos, CA
"Girls tend to be honest about most things." - Stephanie Singer, 30, from New York, NY
"I'm all about the truth." - Heather Callan, 25, from Chicago, IL
"I'm not totally sure." - Johanna Beyenbach, 29, from New York, NY
"I'm just speaking for myself. Why would I lie?" - Anne C, 24, from Miami, FL
"Well at least for me it is. Other girls, I don't know." - Jennifer Beio, 26, from Chicago, IL
"I have always been truthful." - Danielle L, 26, from Chicago, IL
"I can only speak for myself." - Tiffany Davis, 32, from San Diego, CA
"I don't know about other girls but I'm honest." - Sarah Conrad, 27, from New York, NY
"It's ok to tell the truth." - Lauren McHenry, 26, from Dallas, TX
"Why lie...it's 2009." - Katrina Robinson, 28, from Charleston, SC
"I don't lie about that kind of crap." - Mercedes Tahir, 23, from New York, NY
"I've had two and that's the truth." - Lisa Miao, 27, from New York, NY
"Unless she has something to hide..." - Erika San Miguel, 32, from Larkspur, CA
"Benefit of the doubt. Innocent until proven guilty. This is not MTV." - Miranda Elling, 32, from Chicago, IL
"No reason to be ashamed." - Vida James, 28, from New York, NY
"I've never felt the need to lie about this." - Emily Pelton, 29, from Brooklyn, NY
"Hopefully she doesn't have a reason to lie..." - Sara Bour, 23, from Urbana, IL
"What is the point of lying about it?" - Kate DAlleva, 25, from Morristown, NJ
"No reason to lie." - Whitney R, 25, from Princeton, NJ
"I can't speak for other women." - Rebecca Nashleanas, 25, from Los Angeles, CA
"Honesty is the most important part of the relationship." - Kate Bailey, 26, from Chicago, IL
"For girls, usually dead-on." - Miana DeGardeyn, 33, from Chicago, IL
"Most of us really don't have anything to hide." - Wendy Farley, 44, from Charleston, SC
"Women rarely lie about sexual history. They just don't have that kind of ego." - Ann Dang, 24, from San Diego, CA
"girls and guys = same these days" - Nadia Reiman, 28, from Brooklyn, NY
"in my case at least...and my friends too..." - Nora Lahl, 31, from Milwaukee, WI
"Unless you seem judgy about it, in which case you suck." - Regina Melzer, 32, from Los Angeles, CA
"But I wouldn't trust a slut ;)" - Shannon Harknett, 24, from New Orleans, LA
"I hate lying and am terrible at it." - Veronica Cheung, 24, from San Diego, CA
"Who knows?" - Nancy Spruiell, 43, from New York, NY
"or at least for me it is." - Vicky Kuo, 24, from San Diego, CA
"At least for me.." - Vicky Chivy, 26, from San Diego, CA
"she wouldn't lie" - Kylan Conroy, 24, from Chicago, IL
"I've never lied about it!" - Kate Sample, 31, from Chicago, IL
"Real women have nothing to hide." - Molly Millett, 23, from San Francisco, CA
"You need to be up front and honest if you want to get with me." - Jessica Chang, 30, from Los Angeles, CA
"At least I'm honest." - Lucy Malcolm, 26, from New York, NY
"Yeah right." - Deborah Lau, 23, from La Jolla, CA
"We don't have that many partners to lie about."
16%
Twenty percent less.
- Jessi Odenbach, 28, from Chicago, IL
"Nobody wants to admit it." - Grace Hsieh, 22, from San Diego, CA
"It really depends. But no one wants to seem like a slut." - Dominique Vance, 23, from New York, NY
"Unless my number is like, 5, you're not going to ever know." - Anna Bykova, 23, from San Francisco, CA
"Red smile:)" - Paula L, 28, from Miami, Florida
"We don't want to." - Rachel U, 26, from New York, NY
"Ballpark numbers are numbers." - Elinor N, 23, from New York, NY
"I don't count the ones that I am trying to forget about..." - Cat Davis, 25, from New York, NY
"We don't want to seem like sluts." - Cheng-Cheng Lok, 24, from San Francisco, CA
"Nobody wants to sound like a whore." - Britt Ancell, 26, from New York, NY
"In the case of a serious relationship, it's better to be a virgin than a whore." - Tiffany Clarke, 25, from richmond, ca
"Not everyone is an angel." - Alicia Cohen, 37, from New York, NY
"We tend to leave off a few from time to time..." - Jessica Angst, 23, from Palm Beach, FL
"This should never be brought up. Her past is not your future." - Sherika Mair, 29, from West Palm Beach, FL
"They never tell the truth." - Vicky K, 25, from Chino Hills, CA
"depends on the girl" - Frankie Robinson, 36, from Chicago, IL
"Ladies never tell.... I don't. Tried and it backfired." - Pienby Laurence, 25, from Jersey City, NJ
"The double standard makes most women feel the need to undercut the real number."