The terms on the list, explained

Terms

MPSMember of Preferred Sex.

The list defines it in brackets the first time and then uses the initials twice more, so a reader who meets it at question 41 has no gloss in sight. It is worded that way so the three items work whatever your orientation.Questions 25, 26 and 41 — each with the item in full, where it falls on the sheet, and how often it is ticked.

Leave room for JesusChaperone slang for dancing too close.

Said at school and church dances to couples pressed together — leave a gap wide enough for a third party. Question 4 keeps the chaperone's words instead of describing the dancing, which is why the phrase is searched more than any other line on the sheet and why it reads as a joke to anyone who never heard it said out loud.Question 4 — each with the item in full, where it falls on the sheet, and how often it is ticked.

In a non-religious contextThe qualifier on the first drink question.

Communion wine and Kiddush are drinking, and the sheet does not want to count them. It is the one place the list carves out an exception rather than asking a blunter question, and it is why the item reads oddly to anyone who did not grow up with either ritual.Question 44 — each with the item in full, where it falls on the sheet, and how often it is ticked.

Gone through the motionsSimulated intercourse with clothes on.

Sits deliberately before the items that involve undressing: the list is tracking an act, not a state of dress, and this is the last item on that run where nothing came off.Question 24 — each with the item in full, where it falls on the sheet, and how often it is ticked.

The mile high clubSex on an aircraft in flight.

Named for the altitude rather than any club that exists. It sits in the late stretch of intercourse items, where each line asks about a circumstance rather than an act — a vehicle, outdoors, a pool, a plane.Question 80 — each with the item in full, where it falls on the sheet, and how often it is ticked.

Blue ballsThe ache reported after prolonged arousal without release.

Read as a medical question more often than any other item. It is not one — the sheet is asking about an experience, in the slang its student authors used.Question 30 — each with the item in full, where it falls on the sheet, and how often it is ticked.

A 69Simultaneous mutual oral sex, named for the shape of the numeral.

It lands on question 69, which readers assume was arranged. Nothing in the record says whether the copy that fixed this order did it on purpose.Question 69 — each with the item in full, where it falls on the sheet, and how often it is ticked.

Kissed horizontallyKissing while lying down.

The list's own euphemism, and the item people look up most often after MPS. It sits between kissing on the neck and a hickey, so its place on the sheet is the answer to what it implies: still in the romance block, before anything the list calls sexual.Question 10 — each with the item in full, where it falls on the sheet, and how often it is ticked.

StreakingRunning naked through a public place, where people can see you.

The most looked-up word on the sheet after MPS. What separates it from the item directly before it is the audience, not the nakedness — which is why plenty of people tick one and not the other.Question 57 — each with the item in full, where it falls on the sheet, and how often it is ticked.

Skinny-dippingSwimming naked.

Sits at 56, immediately before streaking, in the run of party and nightlife items rather than anywhere near the sexual block. Being unclothed is not what the list is asking about here.Question 56 — each with the item in full, where it falls on the sheet, and how often it is ticked.

HickeyA bruise left on the skin by suction from a kiss.

The last item before the list turns to sexual experience, which makes it a common final tick for scores in the high eighties.Question 11 — each with the item in full, where it falls on the sheet, and how often it is ticked.

FondledTouching, in three separate items: buttocks, breasts, genitals.

Each is worded both ways round, so one experience satisfies the item from either side. Three items rather than one is why this stretch moves a score quickly.Questions 27, 28 and 29 — each with the item in full, where it falls on the sheet, and how often it is ticked.

French kissedKissing with tongue — and then the same thing in public, as a second item.

The list splits an act from the act done in public several times over. The second version is about being seen, which is a different question in a room full of people comparing numbers.Questions 7 and 8 — each with the item in full, where it falls on the sheet, and how often it is ticked.

ThreesomeSexual activity involving three people.

Sits in the block with the fewest ticks. Getting under 25 means the list has run out of common experiences and started counting rare ones.Question 88 — each with the item in full, where it falls on the sheet, and how often it is ticked.

PurityNothing the test measures.

The score counts items you have not ticked, so the word describes the arithmetic — 100 is an empty list — and not a judgement about anybody. It is inherited from the format's campus origins.

Question numbers follow the reconciled list documented on the canonical question list. Copies elsewhere insert and drop items, so the same term can sit a few places away on another site.