Study: https://ifstudies.org/blog/promiscuous-america-smart-secular-and-somewhat-less-happy

I found this study fascinating, because normally these two factors are considered inversely related, where more educated women might be thought of as more conservative and reserved. But this study with a large sample size shows the opposite:

Two related factors—education and intelligence—are highly predictive of having a large number of sex partners. Some of us have a mental portrait of Promiscuous America that looks like the Jerry Springer Show, but this doesn’t seem to comport with reality. People with post-graduate degrees are much more likely than their less-educated peers to be promiscuous, and this is especially true of women. Over 2% of women with advanced degrees fall into the top percentile of promiscuity; in other words, over 35 sex partners. Almost 1.5% of men report top-percentile promiscuity of 150 or more partners. Both these numbers are far higher than they are for people with less formal education. Generally speaking, people with high levels of education have the highest marriage rates and the lowest divorce rates, but their ranks also contain a sprinkling of sexual sybarites.

The other interesting part is that, among the educated categories, the only education level where men are more promiscuous than women are less then high school education. Any other education level, there's more women in the top percentile of promiscuity than men.

Overall, this does make sense to me. A woman with a post grad degree is on one hand dedicated to her career but also pushing against gender norms. Pushing against gender norms and focusing on career could mean getting married later and more time to date around, and have more partners.

Thoughts?