For a long time, there has been speculations over the effects of casual sex and partner count on both the sexes. Speculations included a higher risk of substance dependence disorders, depression, anxiety, etc. It seems as if these speculations haven’t been exactly true, perhaps half-truths or correlational at best. However, research shows interesting findings on this issue, specifically pointing to the fact that casual sex and high partner count has a MORE NEGATIVE impact for women’s wellbeing and emotions as opposed to men. I will present a few points of facts that include the following:
• Women who have slept with only their spouses are 65% more likely to report happy marriages. Although this percentage declines as the # of partners a woman has made, there are gradations (https://ifstudies.org/blog/does-sexual-history-affect-marital-happiness)
• Most Americans reporting one lifetime partner report the happiest marriages, although past one partner there are gradations that can be interpreted as trivial or nontrivial(https://ifstudies.org/blog/does-sexual-history-affect-marital-happiness
•“although having multiple sex partners was followed by substance dependence disorders for both genders, men were more likely than women to have a disorder when they had no or few sex partners whereas women who had more than approximately 10 sex partners in the same time period were much more likely to have a disorder than men.”
•“Women reporting more than 2.5 partners per year had much greater odds of being diagnosed with a substance dependence disorder than those with only one or no partners
My goal is not to provide an exhaustive exorcism on this issue, rather, provide some of my opinions and facts related to this topic. As I learn more, I intend to change my opinion or beliefs on this issue of course, but I shall up it up with the following.
I do not know why we have been saying that “women love sex just as much as men” like this is some parallel or proxy for the idea that women are like men in this regard. This is obviously not true and I believe can hurt women AND men when it comes to future intimacy. Decision-making and responsibility are important topics to talk about as well, so where high sexual partner count and casual sex are to be found, other negative issues dwell as well, that can affect men and women.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3752789/
https://ifstudies.org/blog/does-sexual-history-affect-marital-happiness
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