{"id":24390,"date":"2026-06-12T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24390"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:05:09","slug":"tired-discourse-body-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/tired-discourse-body-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tired Discourse \u2013 Body Counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/question.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24134\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/question.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/question.jpg 250w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/question-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>In January of 2025, the good folks at Defector.com\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/defector.com\/discourses-we-can-stop-having-ranked\">published<\/a>\u00a0a list of 35 topics that have been discussed to within an inch of their life here on the internet.\u00a0 Lucky for me, I haven\u2019t publicly commented on most, if not all, of these topics, so I figured why not dip my toes into the fray on occasion.\u00a0 We will continue today with the third question on their list:<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Body Counts<\/h3>\n<p>Do. Not. Matter.<\/p>\n<p>Once you are out of high school, the number of people your partner, or soon-to-be partner, has slept with doesn&#8217;t matter.\u00a0 At all.\u00a0 Were they safe?\u00a0 Have they been tested and are disease free or disease managed?\u00a0 Yes, those are important questions.\u00a0 But the raw number, and judging someone based on that?\u00a0 Ridiculous puritanical bullshit.<\/p>\n<p>Every experience you and your partner have had has brought the two of you to the same place.\u00a0 Passing judgement on someone because their path curves more or less than yours accomplishes what exactly?\u00a0 Grow up.\u00a0 Mature.\u00a0 Focus on the things that matter.\u00a0 And, if at the end of the day, the number really is important to you and you can&#8217;t stop yourself from judging?\u00a0 At least admit that you are the one with the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January of 2025, the good folks at Defector.com\u00a0published\u00a0a list of 35 topics that have been discussed to within an inch of their life here on the internet.\u00a0 Lucky for me, I haven\u2019t publicly commented on most, if not all, of these topics, so I figured why not dip my toes into the fray on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9956],"class_list":["post-24390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkeytalk","tag-defector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24391,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24390\/revisions\/24391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}