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"By the 2010s, only 5 percent of new brides were virgins. At the other end of the distribution, the number of future wives who had ten or more sex partners increased from 2 percent in the 1970s to 14 percent in the 2000s, and then to 18 percent in the 2010s. Overall, American women are far more likely to have had multiple premarital sex partners in recent years (unfortunately, the NSFG doesn’t have full data on men’s premarital sexual behavior, and in any event they recall their own marital histories less reliably than do women)." (emphasis added)

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Compare 0 partners to 1 premarital sexual partner: 5-year divorce rate more than triples from 6% to 21%

Source: Counterintuitive Trends in the Link Between Premarital Sex and Marital Stability, NSFG