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Even though many women might find even find casual sex with many men pleasurable, it would be fallacious to conflude that such behavior is necessarily natural or good. For example, chocolatey is a [[wikipedia:Supernormal_stimulus|superstimulus]] that tastes sweeter than anything in the natural human environment, but eating it a lot is actually very unhealthy (and poses an [[evolutionary mismatch]]). The same argument can be made regarding drugs. Simply because individuals abuse certain evolved mechanisms to achieve certain hedonic ends, it does not then follow that these behaviors are natural. The pleasure mechanisms in the brain have evolved to motivate the individual to perform actions that are conducive to reproductive success; that drugs can be used to stimulate those pleasure mechanisms is not evidence that those pleasure mechanisms have evolved for humans to take drugs (unless of course taking drugs is adaptive and contributes to reproductive success).  

Similarly, the burst of oxytocin we receive with a new sexual encounter (which we know has in part evolved due to pair-bonding) can be abused to constantly receive these pleasurable bursts by having multiple partners to induce them. Still, it does not mean that those bursts of pleasure have evolved because of promiscuity.  

Cross-culturally, it has been shown that extremely promiscuous women were less reproductively successful than more faithful females.{{Citation needed|reason=A source would bolster this argument and likely make for interesting reading|date=April 2021}} This is because slutty women were more subject to murder and infanticide (by of their jealous partners, of course).