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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.

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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.

Are you denying trends and averages exist?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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