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| Study: People With Fewer Sex Partners Report Happier Marriages |
| 2018-10-25 |
| [Atlantic] If you are on the proverbial market, as you rack up phone swipes, first dates, and‐likely‐new sexual partners, you might start to ask yourself, Is all this dating going to make me happier with whomever I end up with? In other words, are you actually getting any closer to finding "the one"? Or are you simply stuck on a hedonic treadmill of potential lovers, doomed like some sort of sexual Sisyphus to be perpetually close to finding your soul mate, only to realize‐far, far too late‐that they are deal-breakingly disappointing? Well, sociology has some unfortunate news! Over at the Institute for Family Studies, Nicholas Wolfinger, a sociologist at the University of Utah, has found that Americans who have only ever slept with their spouses are most likely to report being in a "very happy" marriage. Meanwhile, the lowest odds of marital happiness‐about 13 percentage points lower than the one-partner women‐belong to women who have had six to 10 sexual partners in their lives. For men, there’s still a dip in marital satisfaction after one partner, but it’s never as low as it gets for women, as Wolfinger’s graph shows: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 No woman, no cry. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-10-25 20:15 |
| #6 I never worried about previous girlfriends. They were the experiences he needed in order to learn to appreciate me properly. Ditto on my side of the equation. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-10-25 18:59 |
| #5 The fewer ex's in the rearview, the better. Don't want to hear about them. Don't want to hear from them. Don't want to be compared with any of them. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2018-10-25 13:30 |
| #4 Eventually, if one lives long enough, no sex and no partner ...is all that’s left. Unless you are the only man on your floor of the retirement home. In which case, beware STDs and desperately flirtatious elderly females. FIFY. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-10-25 10:24 |
| #3 Eventually, if one lives long enough, no sex and no partner makes you happiest. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-10-25 09:15 |
| #2 People with fewer sex partners report passing fewer STDs to their spouses, resulting in happier marriages... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-10-25 06:53 |
| #1 Not certain about before, but most certainly true after one is married. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-10-25 01:56 |