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==Are all modern Western women sluts?== | ==Are all modern Western women sluts?== | ||
Contrary to people's impression, there is not much evidence that female promiscuity has sharply increased in recent decades, with female promiscuity seeming to have stabilized in the 1980s. In [[demographics#Germany|Germany]], [[demographics#France|France]], and the [[demographics|In the U.S., sexlessness has increased in the last decade for women, likely due to weaker monogamy norms, later marriage, feminism shifting women's focus from reproduction to work, and increasing social atomization. | Contrary to people's impression, there is not much evidence that female promiscuity has sharply increased in recent decades, with female promiscuity seeming to have stabilized in the 1980s. In [[demographics#Germany|Germany]], [[demographics#France|France]], and the [[demographics|In the U.S.]], sexlessness has increased in the last decade for women, likely due to weaker monogamy norms, later marriage, feminism shifting women's focus from reproduction to work, and increasing social atomization. | ||
For the U.S. studies are indicating a shift from an average of 2-lifetime sexual partners for women and 6 for men in 1970 to about 4 partners for women and 6 for men in 2006,<ref>http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/pages/faculty/welliott/Sexrevns.htm</ref><ref>http://www.iub.edu/~kinsey/resources/FAQ.html#number</ref> but one study reports medians and the other means, and this change can also be possibly explained by women being more honest about their sexual lives. | For the U.S. studies are indicating a shift from an average of 2-lifetime sexual partners for women and 6 for men in 1970 to about 4 partners for women and 6 for men in 2006,<ref>http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/pages/faculty/welliott/Sexrevns.htm</ref><ref>http://www.iub.edu/~kinsey/resources/FAQ.html#number</ref> but one study reports medians and the other means, and this change can also be possibly explained by women being more honest about their sexual lives. | ||