You just need to google "promiscuity and marriage stability" to see tons of studies who show a clear correlation between a woman's sexual past and her ability to maintain a long lasting happy marriage. The facts speak for themselves.

For the record, I think that promiscuity for both women and men is damaging to the ability to pair bond, however some evidence shows that men generally have a higher "resistance" to the effects of promiscuity and they are way more prone to have stable happy marriages even if they had promiscuous past.

The point of my post is that slut shaming is actually a healthy social pressure that has helped humanity keep men and women from employing their worse and most long term damaging instincts. Having lost this invisible social form of moral control in our society is a great loss because, despite the effects are difficult to see, the damage is immense.

The first casualties of a society without moral limits to promiscuity are children, not only those who see their parents break up over sexual affairs, but also children who will never be born because stable and long lasting bonds are extremely hard to build in a society where at 18 years old people already had more sexual partners than their grandparents had in their entire lifetime.

Of course promiscuity, and more specifically celebrated promiscuity, damages women long term as well, because it makes them less attractive and less stable partners.

What is your take on promiscuity?

Do you think there is a happy medium between having experienced the opposite sex and saving yourself for the right one?

Do you think it applies to both men and women equally?