How many guys can you screw before you’re a slut?

What is the official rule in dating on how many people you can sleep with before you’re  labeled a slut?  My friends and I were discussing this recently and were wondering about it. First of all, what are the playing parameters?  Are they different if you’re in your 20′s, 30′s, 40′s and higher?  Is it a cumulative number or can you start back at zero each time you hit a new decade? Does it count if there were more than one during one encounter?  Are you less of a slut when you’re older because you don’t give a shit and your hormones are making you horny?  When you’re older do the guys talk about you less? 

Let’s start back in high school…  Back then, and I’m assuming now,  girls got labeled sluts pretty easily.  The boys talked in the locker room and it was all over school pretty quick if you were sleeping around.  In college, the playing field was bigger, so unless you were screwing the fraternity or a sports team, you could sleep with more people before you got labeled. 

Once you were in your adulthood, you could screw around a lot more as long as you knew how to shut your mouth (obviously not your legs, HA).  Does anyone care how many is too many anymore?  Why do men want to know how many men you’ve slept with, but women are less curious? 

Does all this questioning make you want to drink wine?? 

It’s kind of like the old Tootsie Pop commercial, you know the how many licks does it take to get to the center?  When is it too many?  I try and think back about the men I’ve slept with and somehow I know I’m messing up the count.  I didn’t sleep with any when I was in high school, so that number is easy, college is pretty easy too as I only had a few boyfriends.  After college, I only had a few until I got married at 23 and I didn’t cheat on my husband, so the next 11 years are easy. 

Now, after I got my divorce is when it gets a bit fuzzy.  Do I not remember because it wasn’t that good?   Because it wasn’t important, or at this point in my I don’t give a shit?  BTW, girls talk worse than men at my age, maybe because we avoided it when we were younger so we wouldn’t look like sluts or we are just happy to get some.  Does anyone know if there is an official range that is acceptable??? I know I don’t look at my girlfriends and judge them and in my past, they would congratulate me for getting laid.  When did the tables turn?