Between you, me and the bedpost

When Nick Clegg admitted to having slept with 'no more than 30' partners he was dubbed the Lib Dem lothario

"How many women would actually know for a fact you're good in bed?"

when Clegg spluttered out a non-reply, Morgan pushed him: "10, 20, 30?", To this, Clegg spat out: "No more than 30 ... a lot less than that,"

"Shagger" would also, of course, suffice

just why are we so interested in the number of sexual partners that someone has had?

18-year-old Cheryl Tunney caused flurries of outrage when she admitted to having had 50 sexual partners since losing her virginity two years ago

former model Adam Perry, a 1980s icon after posing with a baby for a bestselling Athena poster, destroyed that romantic, fatherly image for ever when he went public with the fact that he's had "a lot of sexual partners ... it may well be 3,000, although I never kept a list"

men reported an average of 31.9 partner

women reported an average of 8.6