omkara
Senior Don Juan
I just was reading through the comments over on the spearhead and came across this link to the study about fidelity and number of partners.
http://socialpathology.blogspot.com/2010/09/sexual-partner-divorce-risk.html
6500 participants (women)
0 extramarital partners - 80% stable marriage rate over 10 years
1 partner - 53%
10+ partners - 29%
16+ partners - 18%
Obviously people have different goals, but I think this says a lot about the implications of number of partners for LTR's. It doesn't imply causality (ie a third variable could be causing the same woman to be loyal and not have a lot of sex partners), however I don't think that takes away from the predictive validity of, here's a girl who's had this many sex partners, and here's how likely she is to be faithful in a LTR.
http://socialpathology.blogspot.com/2010/09/sexual-partner-divorce-risk.html
6500 participants (women)
0 extramarital partners - 80% stable marriage rate over 10 years
1 partner - 53%
10+ partners - 29%
16+ partners - 18%
Obviously people have different goals, but I think this says a lot about the implications of number of partners for LTR's. It doesn't imply causality (ie a third variable could be causing the same woman to be loyal and not have a lot of sex partners), however I don't think that takes away from the predictive validity of, here's a girl who's had this many sex partners, and here's how likely she is to be faithful in a LTR.