Male maths

Gekko

This being after hours, here's one for some of the boardsies to ponder.

Take an average healthy male, say a lifespan of 75 years.

If this guy had an endless supply of healthy fertile and willing females lining up...

And say he's at it as much as possible every single day.

Say he starts at the age of 15 - giving a nice round figure of 50 years.

How many kids would he be able to father?

Let's say perhaps an average of 8 times a day between the ages of 15 and 35, an average of 4 times a day 35 - 50 and an average of twice a day 50 - 75.

So:

8 x 365 x 20 = ?
4 x 365 x 15 = ?
2 x 365 x 25 = ?

Dammit my PC's calculator won't start up!!

javaboy

Anyone can be a father but it takes a man to be a dad. :pac:

Also don't forget to factor in twins, triplets, quads and n-tuplets into your equations.

Gekko

I'd need to know the odds of twins etc. to factor that in!!

monkeyfudge

8 times a day? Really?

JC 2K3

You could extract each individual sperm from each emission of semen and inseminate one woman with each one.

You could jerk off into a test tube once and father around 3 million babies!

DonkeyStyle \o/

JC 2K3 wrote: »

You could jerk off into a test tube once and father around 3 million babies!

I quite fancy jerking off into a test tube, just for the laugh like, not to impregnate anyone.
Slosh it around from one vial to another, heat it with a bunson burner, then add the findings to my journal.

Gekko wrote: »

8 x 365 x 20 = ?
4 x 365 x 15 = ?
2 x 365 x 25 = ?

Dammit my PC's calculator won't start up!!

98,550 by my calculator.

aidan24326

Gekko wrote: »

This being after hours, here's one for some of the boardsies to ponder.

Take an average healthy male, say a lifespan of 75 years.

If this guy had an endless supply of healthy fertile and willing females lining up...

And say he's at it as much as possible every single day.

Say he starts at the age of 15 - giving a nice round figure of 50 years.

How many kids would he be able to father?

Let's say perhaps an average of 8 times a day between the ages of 15 and 35, an average of 4 times a day 35 - 50 and an average of twice a day 50 - 75.

So:

8 x 365 x 20 = ?
4 x 365 x 15 = ?
2 x 365 x 25 = ?

Dammit my PC's calculator won't start up!!

8 times per day is optimistic even for a 15 year old! But if we replace it with a more realistic target, let's say 6 (most teenage boys could manage that I'd say) then your calculation comes to a total of 159,550. If the girls were chosen so they were all at their most fertile time of the month you could wind up with a few thousand offspring.

Though if it was done by some sort of artificial insemination the possible number would be much higher, one ejaculation containing millions of sperm, so in theory a man could father a huge number of children.

Hence why women are, on average, that bit more choosy about who they sleep with. A woman can give birth probably not much more than about 20 times, I think the record is 24.

KnifeWRENCH

I have a way to simplify this problem:

Problem: Calculate the possible number of children a man coud father under the following conditions:

Take an average healthy male, say a lifespan of 75 years.

If this guy had an endless supply of healthy fertile and willing females lining up...

And say he's at it as much as possible every single day.

Say he starts at the age of 15 - giving a nice round figure of 50 years.

Let's say perhaps an average of 8 times a day between the ages of 15 and 35, an average of 4 times a day 35 - 50 and an average of twice a day 50 - 75.

Solution: Assume the following axiom:

Man had vasectomy on 15th birthday

Therefore no children are fathered.

Q.E.D.

LovelyTom

Gekko wrote: »

This being after hours, here's one for some of the boardsies to ponder.

Take an average healthy male, say a lifespan of 75 years.

If this guy had an endless supply of healthy fertile and willing females lining up...

And say he's at it as much as possible every single day.

Say he starts at the age of 15 - giving a nice round figure of 50 years.

How many kids would he be able to father?

Let's say perhaps an average of 8 times a day between the ages of 15 and 35, an average of 4 times a day 35 - 50 and an average of twice a day 50 - 75.

So:

8 x 365 x 20 = ?
4 x 365 x 15 = ?
2 x 365 x 25 = ?

Dammit my PC's calculator won't start up!!

Sorry but if I had a line of women eager to have sex with me I could go far more than 8 times a day.

Black Swan

You have to factor in infant mortality, accidents, maternal mortality, etc.? I understand that 2.1 children per couple is zero population growth, because of the average loss of 0.1 of the population, for example.

Also, if he were so frisky as to do it eight times a day (or even 4 times a day), there is a good chance that he would father very few children after the first day, because his critters would not be mature enough to fertilize an egg, so he may have a lot of fun but very few children?

Another issue may be that, although they are both fertile, there seems to be some pairings that will not produce offspring, no matter how much they try? Plus, every preggers does not result in a birth (miscarrage is more common than you think)?

And what about STDs and recovery time?

Plus, what's the chance that from all those females, one is a bunny boiler with a sword? Chop, chop!

Kernel

Now that's good science lads.

I'd say you'd have to do a lot of work in the saddle to beat 'oul Genghis Khan and his boys:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/2/8/214236/6651

BraziliaNZ

I jacked off 7 times one day when I was about 16, that's the most I've managed I think, with a woman maybe 3 times in a night, but I could be imagining that

sam34

not quite the same thing, but i was listening to the radio yesterday and they had a vet on and he was trying to encourage people to have their female dogs spayed, to reduce the number of strays etc. but the vet said that if a dog has puppies as often as she can, and if each of them pups go on to have as many as possible and so on for generations, you'd be looking at 20000 (yes 20000) pups over the lifespan of the original mother :eek::eek:

pickarooney

75-15=60 by my calculator

javaboy

sam34 wrote: »

not quite the same thing, but i was listening to the radio yesterday and they had a vet on and he was trying to encourage people to have their female dogs spayed, to reduce the number of strays etc. but the vet said that if a dog has puppies as often as she can, and if each of them pups go on to have as many as possible and so on for generations, you'd be looking at 20000 (yes 20000) pups over the lifespan of the original mother :eek::eek:

Vets should not be told about the Fibonacci sequence. How often would you say that 20000 figure has actually been reached in reality?

I'm all for spaying but that sounds like a bit of scaremongering.

Reku

Kernel wrote: »

Now that's good science lads.

I'd say you'd have to do a lot of work in the saddle to beat 'oul Genghis Khan and his boys:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/2/8/214236/6651

Yeah, one statistic I saw claimed he had over 200 grandchildren, so damn that guy got it on a lot... wonder if he was maybe the first leader to have a double to... emm... fullfill his duties...

Mr. CooL ICE

sam34 wrote: »

not quite the same thing, but i was listening to the radio yesterday and they had a vet on and he was trying to encourage people to have their female dogs spayed, to reduce the number of strays etc. but the vet said that if a dog has puppies as often as she can, and if each of them pups go on to have as many as possible and so on for generations, you'd be looking at 20000 (yes 20000) pups over the lifespan of the original mother :eek::eek:

20,000 puppies??? How cuuuutte!!!

Thats it. I'm off to have sex with a dog

DonkeyStyle \o/

pickarooney wrote: »

75-15=60 by my calculator

I'd just like to add that my calculator confirms these findings.
I think we may be on to something here.

Jimbo

Originally Posted by pickarooney
75-15=60 by my calculator

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

I'd just like to add that my calculator confirms these findings.
I think we may be on to something here.

+1. Figuratively, not literally

Parsley

You forgot days in leap years! :pac:

2 stroke

8 times a day is certainly possible, it's also possible that after 1 fully satisfying ejaculation that one has to take a break for a day.

Earthhorse

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

I quite fancy jerking off into a test tube, just for the laugh like, not to impregnate anyone.
Slosh it around from one vial to another, heat it with a bunson burner, then add the findings to my journal.

Day 28

The lab is really starting to smell. I wish I'd taken that night class in flower arranging like mother suggested but it's too late now. Remember to bring back those videos tomorrow, I think some of them are overdue.

javaboy wrote: »

Vets should not be told about the Fibonacci sequence.

What's that? Some form of contraceptive?