Right, obviously you are having happy sex which keeps you in that relationship… 

Sure. 

Because it works for your relationship... 

Yeah.  There are many components to a relationship, not to give a relationship speech, but you have to be compatible on a lot of different fronts in order to have a healthy and long term relationship, obviously if you are sexually incompatible with somebody that’s going to cause tension.  There are all kinds of things that cause tension in a relationship.  People fight about money, they fight about the kids, or they fight about where to live.  If I want to live in a house and I marry somebody who refuses to live in a house, that’s going to cause conflict.  So my girlfriend and I are sexually compatible and that’s good.  If we weren’t sexually compatible this would be the source of much conflict and sex is very important to me. I really have lost all perspective; I have no idea if it’s more important to me than the average person, because you can never get a straight answer.  I talk to my friends and they’re like, ‘Yeah, sex is pretty fucking important to us too, we value sex a lot, we enjoy having sex with our spouses, we want to have sex.’ And then I have some friends who are like, ‘I don’t really care for it, I hate it, I don’t like it, I’m indifferent about sex.’  But one thing that is certain everybody knows where they stand.  No body is like, ‘I don’t know, I haven’t decided yet.’ Most people know where they stand.  Like, ‘I like to have sex once a week, I like to have sex twice a week, I like to have sex once a year;’ and everybody kind of knows where they stand with sex.

It’s something that you kind of figure out early on in adulthood.  I don’t know, maybe everybody in America wants to have sex once a day and we’re all lying to each other. Maybe I’m not the only one, maybe if I really polled ten thousand people I’d find out that eight thousand of them had just as many sexual partners as me and we’re all lying cause, again, if someone put a microphone in my face and said, ‘Hello, Mister, how many people have you had sex with?  I’d probably be like, ‘I don’t know, four.’ And that number is grossly inaccurate.  But that’s what I’d say because I don’t need to stand up in front of people and go to work and have everybody look at me and say he’s had sex with close to a thousand people.  That’s ridiculous, they’d be like, ‘Oh my god! We can’t trust him! And keep him away from our children! And he probably has a disease!’  There’s another misconception; having a lot of sex does not equal a venereal disease.  I have none. I am completely venereal disease free. I’d offer to let you check but you’re not a doctor.  But, no, me and all my sex partners, and all of the other people I know who would describe themselves as sluts, none of us have. 

Now is that something that they would put in their little profile?  Because I know it’s popular if you get an HIV test you get the little card, or is that just something you assume is correct? 

For me, I never ask people if they have illnesses because if they don’t volunteer it, they’re going to lie to me if I ask so there’s no real reason to ask but I practice safe sex. The religious rite, and even the government for some strange reason, doesn’t want you to realize this but condoms, if used properly, are effective.  They say that they are like 97% effective but the 3% that’s ineffective builds in human error.  It’s not that you do everything right and they just don’t work, you used it wrong.  3% of the time condoms are used the person would use it incorrectly…it will slide off during sex and they won’t notice, or it will break and they won’t notice, or things of this nature. Condoms, if used properly, work. Practicing safe sex works.  And people don’t want you to believe that but its true; it does work and the big thing for me is if I start to get involved sexually with somebody that I think doesn’t practice safe sex then you have to have the willpower to stop.  If I’m ever with a woman and she says, ‘Oh don’t worry, you don’t have to use a condom.’ Yeah, it’s over.  Get out, we’re done.  Because you’re not a responsible person. I don’t want to take chances.  If you’re willing to have sex with a stranger without a condom I don’t need to be involved in that. That’s dangerous.  I don’t understand unplanned pregnancy, I don’t.  Take responsibility for your sexuality.  And on both sides.  And there are a lot of men who think that’s the woman’s responsibility.  Are you a fool?  You can’t even own your own dick?  You need someone to take care of your own privates?  You can’t even be responsible for your own sexuality, you’re that immature?  ‘Well, what do you mean?’  What do you mean, what do I mean?  You’re incapable of practicing safe sex? But you’re somehow mature enough to have it?  Come on, man up!  It’s one of the only times that I actually say ‘man up.’ 

Well, it’s in reference to your ‘manhood.’