Why Do We Now Keep Discussing “Body Count?” (And Why Is THAT The Name?)

“That much ass, she must be good at math.”

I’ve been on TikTok approximately six times in my entire life, and each time I scrolled for maybe 30 seconds to one minute. I don’t find it that awesome. But maybe because of my lack of TikTok-y-ness, I didn’t know about the term “body count,” which feels like something you ask a Marine or a guy on death row — but no, now that terms “sexual partners.” I have no idea how we got from an analogy for mass murder to discussing someone’s previous sexual history, but sheesh, the world is an interesting place these days.

The “body count” conversation has a natural place in the culture wars of today because it’s thought to be tied to various things about the unraveling of society. If (especially) women are having more premarital sex, which seems to be true, does that mean they won’t evolve into the good wives and mothers that society expects them to be? Absolutely not. I know at least 15 women — and this is off the top of my head — who were ostensibly sluts in college and became tremendous mothers. How you are at 19 and how you are at 44 are often very different. We need to remember that.

Then it gets into societal rules, I.e. “Can you ask another person about their body count?” Absolutely you can, especially if…