Platonic love? No! Philosophy students have most partners

PHILOSOPHY students have topped a lovers’ league at Cambridge University – counting 17 sexual partners on average.

Student newspaper Varsity polled 600 scholars, revealing that veterinary medicine students were a close second with nearly 15 lovers.

While the average Cambridge student has had seven sexual partners, those from the psychological and behaviourial sciences department admitted to just 3.77 partners on average, making them the least successful in love. They were followed by students of classics (3.84) and natural sciences (4.65).

The newspaper said one student ‘claimed to have slept with 10,000 people’. Only 16 per cent of students said they were virgins, a figure that remains unchanged from when the research was last carried out in 2008.

Some are also getting creative. Ten respondents claimed to have had sex on King’s Parade, a street in central Cambridge, while another 20 said they have had sex in a college chapel.

Varsity stated: ‘It seems students are finding more inventive ways to integrate staples of the Cambridge experience into their sex lives.’