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exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoI 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.
Nah. A good friend of mine is really good looking and super charismatic. He’s boned at the very least 50+ girls. Now at age 38 he’s settled down with a fantastic lady and they’ve had their first child not long ago.
Good looking dudes will have had sex with at least a dozen girls during college alone.
Yeah, plenty of guys like that exist, but I’m giving reasons why the average (or maybe median) might be much lower. The guys I know who have hooked up with at least 20 women in a year (once every 2 weeks) were specifically working and living in a place where that happens with enough frequency (surf instructor in Hawaii who would hook up with women on vacation, bouncer at a popular bar in a party college town). And obviously celebrities are in a different category as well. But are there enough of them to move the numbers for the median?
I went to a law school where plenty of hookups happened, but the pool of potential partners tended to flame out by 5 before they either settled into a single monogamous relationship or exhausted the entire pool of potentially interested short term partners.
I also went to a party school for undergrad, but young people are just so much more awkward about sex and relationships that it seemed like way fewer men had repeated success at any kind of sustainable rate. Some men did, but for the the overall average, even among physically attractive men, was low enough that a big chunk would prefer at least medium term commitments rather than try for hookups every weekend.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
This sounds really foreign to me tbh. I don’t think I know a single person who hasn’t had at least 1 same-night hookup? Maybe my experience/exposure is just heavily skewed due to living in a town with a university known for being a “party school”
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Almost everyone I know who would be interested in that, while not dating or otherwise committed to someone else, without some kind of religious baggage or ethical qualms that prevents them from wanting to have a one-night stand, has been successful at least once or twice. But those caveats really do carve people out: the guy who was in a committed relationship from 20-22 while attending that party school, the guy who has religious reasons not to have low commitment sex, etc.
And that window doesn’t last forever. Men who tend to be charismatic enough to find a quick partner also tend to be charismatic enough to find a stable partner. So a hookup phase tends to give way to a serious relationship, especially when hooking up with a woman who otherwise stands out from the others in terms of some kind of specific compatibility.
So stringing that together multiple times in the phase of your life where you might want to do that instead of a committed relationship, enough to move past the 5-9 number, seems much more unusual to me.
For me, I think I basically only had a 1 year window where I lived in a city where hookups with strangers was feasible and where I wasn’t already committed to a monogamous relationship. And I had some hookups that year, but ended up in a serious relationship by the end of that 12-month period. And when I got out of that relationship I had basically a few dates before meeting my wife and falling in love with her.
In other words, even among the men I know who had lots of hookups in their 20’s tended to be married by 30 anyway, so it’s a limited window of time.