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Wanda Tinasky's avatar

So many uncontrolled potential confounders. Are women virgins because they're hyper-religious? Or unattractive? Both seem plausible.

Reminds me of the study that connected alcohol abstinence with worse all-cause mortality.

Bart Bounds's avatar

This tracks.

Btw, is there a plugged alpha?

Peter Andrew Nolan's avatar

Yep Rich, even as kids in the 70s we all knew to stay away from the whores.

Bonny Byzuk's avatar

That works for women too. The higher number of women slept with by men say cheating time is always near. Beware.

Peter Andrew Nolan's avatar

Bonny, husbands who are faithful are treated no better in divorce courts. So I tell husbands they should be unfaithful if they want to be.

Progressive Masculinity's avatar

Obsessing over body count is a beta move, even for your long-term partner. High-value women who live in a major metropolitan area are going to have like 5-30 bodies by the time she settles down. Who cares? If you're halfway good with women you'll have many multiples more than that by the time you reach the same stage.

Also the Institute for Family Studies is kind of a bullshit organization with a reactionary agenda, wouldn't really trust any studies that aren't replicated elsewhere.

SJ's avatar

What does the research say about men who pump and dump alot of their "Ex's" before falling in love with "The right one" and "Getting serious"? Does he treat her well, as his wife? Does he cheat?

I'd love a companion article about this.

Copernican's avatar

I think there needs to be a meta-study. My thought is that this actually looks like a Gaussian distribution if you stretch the numbers up high... enough. I'm curious about the statistical significance of such a study.

That is, I want brackets broken down into 0, 1, 2, 5-10, 10-15, 15-20, ... up to around 250 or so.

If I were to guess, the divorce rate starts to drop somewhere around the 50-60 mark. By the time it hits 120, you get divorce rates similar to 0,1, or 2.

I may be wrong, but no one has ever done the study on it, and there's an argument to be made. I'm not arguing a moral position or social position. I've just got a suspicion that there's more to it on the high end.

Rowan Salton's avatar

This is confounded by the innate personality differences between women with low sexual partner counts and women with high sexual partner counts. Iotw your risk analysis is correct but the effect may have nothing to do with having multiple sexual partners causing women to be less stable partners. It may just be sorting women with stable emotional makeups from those with less stable emotional makeups.

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Copernican's avatar

Women are snakes. I generally always assume that a woman has no good reason for a divorce unless there's significant obvious evidence.

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Copernican's avatar

This is why I don't care what you teach women. A warbride doesn't complain, and the economic instability Feminism has created... will produce plenty of opportunity to find a warbride. Or two.

Boris A. Doyle's avatar

That's a lie.

For a start domestic abuse where there is only one person abusing the other, it's women-men in 70-30 of circumstances.

Every unbiased study shows that

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Peter Andrew Nolan's avatar

Even as boys in the 70s we all knew to stay away from whores Natalee.