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==== Have women become sluttier? ==== | ==== Have women become sluttier? ==== | ||
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Contrary to people's impression, women do not appear to have more sex. In [[#Germany|Germany]], [[#France|France]], the U.S., sexlessness has decreased for women as well, likely due to weaker monogamy norms, later marriage, feminism shifting women's focus from reproduction to work. | Contrary to people's impression, women do not appear to have more sex. In [[#Germany|Germany]], [[#France|France]], the U.S., sexlessness has decreased for women as well, likely due to weaker monogamy norms, later marriage, feminism shifting women's focus from reproduction to work. | ||
For the U.S., there are studies indicating a shift from an average of 2 lifetime sexual partners for women and 6 for men in 1970<ref>http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/pages/faculty/welliott/Sexrevns.htm</ref> to about 4 partners for women and 6 for men in 2006,<ref>http://www.iub.edu/~kinsey/resources/FAQ.html#number</ref> but one study reports medians and the other means, and this change can potentially explained by women lying less about their number of partners. | For the U.S., there are studies indicating a shift from an average of 2 lifetime sexual partners for women and 6 for men in 1970<ref>http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/pages/faculty/welliott/Sexrevns.htm</ref> to about 4 partners for women and 6 for men in 2006,<ref>http://www.iub.edu/~kinsey/resources/FAQ.html#number</ref> but one study reports medians and the other means, and this change can potentially explained by women lying less about their number of partners. |