[strix_varius]

It sounds like you may be projecting your personal experience onto society at large.

> Are we going to deny there was less promiscuity in the past?

The data indeed shows that there was not less, but more promiscuity in the recent past that the previous poster mentioned:

https://ifstudies.org/blog/nine-decades-of-promiscuity

Men's promiscuity peaked in the generation born around 1930 and has been declining since.

Women's promiscuity peaked in the generation born in the 1950s and hasn't changed much since then (at 5-6 lifetime partners, a fair degree shy of your "7 by the time they leave college").

[heattemp99]

If you doubt that girls are sleeping around in college a lot, idk what to tell you. I guess when the stats come out in a decade or two you'll believe me.

[skyyler]

You are bringing your anecdotes up in the face of fact, just FYI.

I've dated people with hundreds of past partners and I've dated kissless virgins. People are people.

Not everyone is promiscuous; not everyone is a prude.

[heattemp99]

Are you denying trends and averages exist?

[gattilorenz]

Considering they provided data about it, I don’t think so.

They’re suggesting that data (trends and averages) contradict your perception, which is mostly based on anecdata and your own feeling I imagine.

You should entertain that option, since that’s the whole point of looking at data.

[Paul_S]

That's not what the data shows. You can't compare lifetime partners of people who lived their full lives to teenagers. If you compare number of partners in the last year (prior to survey) then promiscuity had been steadily increasing since it began to be measured.

[gattilorenz]

Maybe, but if this is what the OP is claiming... he should say so, instead of snarkily replying with rhetorical questions about the existence of trends and averages.

[strix_varius]

Given that you say you're 38 and looking for a life partner, I'm baffled at your obsession with the sexual proclivities of college girls.

[heattemp99]

Up until a few years ago that was my favorite demographic. Got too expensive and time consuming though so I'm trying my age for a year or two.

[strix_varius]

I'm starting to see why you're having so much trouble meeting someone who you believe would stick with you through thick and thin.

This is super creepy.

[kaba0]

So they are giving up themselves easily, yet you have a favorite demographic? Quite clearly the reason why you can’t find someone is that you are not a person people want to be together with — maybe look for the problem in yourself first, before projecting that out to whole “demographics”.

[hef19898]

And that is a problem why exactly? And it is not just women, also men. Also you, it seems, preferred those morally doubtful college women. Tells more about you than anyone else.

[andrepd]

Nah man but it's his gut feeling that all women are "sluts" with 37 partners by the time they enter college, we gotta respect that /s

I've no patience for this talk. Repressing your natural sexual feelings and inculcating shame and guilt about your body is disastrous. Condoms and medical progress got us safe sex, and women's lib got us proper consent: the two only requirements to go ahead and have a good time.

He has his preferences. That's okay! But he should make peace with his views instead of trying to shame 20 year olds for (gasp!) fucking each other.

[FreshStart]

That can't be true. That was before penicillin. Humanity would have died a syphilitic death.

[meheleventyone]

Umm, yes, pre effective treatments lots of people died of syphilis which of course wasn’t well understood and had lots of false cures. It still kills hundreds of thousands of people today!

[strix_varius]

1928 < 1970