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Joe, a homeless man who avoids having to sleep on the streets by picking up women, claims to sleep with around 156 ladies every year.

He manages to spend 3-4 nights a week off the street at different womens' houses, saying that he sometimes gets to stay more than one night "if the women enjoy themselves enough".

We estimated from this that he has 3 sexual partners a week, accounting for multiple night with the same person.

Ok, so how does that line up with the average person?

According to a 2005 survey for Durex, the average Brit has around 10 sexual partners in their lifetime. Americans come slightly higher, with almost 11 sexual partners. Turks top the international league, with about 14-15 lovers.

Joe was kicked out by his parents at a young age - but he never said when this was. He's 26 now, so if he was made homeless at the age of 20, he would by now have slept with around 936 women.

How does he sustain this lifestyle?

He claims to spend all his time and money on making himself look attractive, using free aftershave from pharmacies, for example.

He approaches a lot of different women and is very complimentary. (NB: Do not go out and sexually harass people in the street).

Sheer numbers, Joe said "There are 8 million people in New York, if you're not getting laid you're a f**king a**hole".

He has four 'pretty good' outfits and 'no bad outfits', according to himself. So if you are looking to go home with someone, get some sweet new threads, perhaps.

You're making it sound like he has an awful lot of sex

In the grand scheme of things it's not really all that much. For example, according to US surveys, the average prostitute has 694 partners per year .

On the celebrity side of things:

Warren Beatty, legendary US actor/producer/lover, managed 12,775 partners over 35 years

Cleopatra apparently had over 1,000 sexual partners throughout her life

Actually legendary legendary lover Don Juan bedded 2,065 people in his entire fictional lifetime

Fidel Castro apparently slept with 2 women every day over 40 years. If this were true this would add up to 29,200 lovers. We doubt he's doing this now though.