I could see it. A substantial number of men go through several long relationships and meet their monogamous life partner before they hit even their third or fourth serious relationship. And a string of 3+ year monogamous relationships starts adding up so that you’re old before you hit 10 partners.
Even the short term relationships are pretty unusual, and require some ramp up of building connections. It still usually takes a few days or weeks of dates and text messages for most people to be comfortable having sex with someone they only recently met. Even among incredibly attractive and charismatic men, the same-night hookup is pretty rare.
So a pretty typical lifecycle of the attractive man is something like high school sweethearts, then maybe 1-2 college girlfriends, then maybe 2-3 serious girlfriends after that before marrying someone and being monogamous. Even throwing in a few short term flings, you’re still not typically getting up to 10 partners. And that’s for a pretty attractive guy who can easily attract women.
And if we’re being honest, first time sex with a new partner just isn’t as fun as sex with someone you’ve already had sex with 10+ times, so there’s plenty of reason to want to keep the same partner over time.
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Average 6" male, average looking. Not tall, not handsome. I am @ 48 total.