11. How many guys have you slept with?

This is the kind of question that swirls around in a man’s head with great regularity after he starts a new relationship. This is also one of those questions that have the potential of doing more damage to the guy asking than it is to the woman being asked. Most of the time, a guy really doesn’t want to know the answer to this question, but a kind of morbid curiosity drives him to finally ask this uber-awkward question. In many cases, the answer to this one is not what the guy was hoping for, and then there’s the question of whether or not it’s an accurate count or one that’s been “downsized.”