Research shows that the more sexual partners you have before marriage, the more likely it is that the quality of your marriage will be affected. This is not so much a psychological problem as it is an economic problem, which can be explained by the "market scale effect".

To find someone to stay with you for life, limit your choices to those who are also looking for a life partner and have similar age, attractiveness, career, and sexual orientation. The other person, like you, has ideas and requirements for a lifelong partner. If you don't meet other people's requirements, your mate selection will be limited.

Dr. Marina Aschede, an economics teacher at the University of British Columbia in Canada, believes that sexual history is an interesting issue. It is a personal choice, but it is difficult to change afterwards. You won't describe this aspect in your marriage or dating materials, but many people who are interested in finding a spouse are very concerned about it, even in the United States, which has relatively "open" sexual concepts. A recent incomplete survey in the country showed that the smaller the range of people to choose from, the worse the quality of mate selection, which in turn affects the quality of marriage. Research shows that the number of past sexual partners is inversely related to married people's self-reported happiness.

Research from Brigham Young University in the United States shows that for every additional sexual partner, the quality of sexual life, marital communication, and marital stability after marriage will decrease.

Women’s sexual partners should be careful about cancer

The causes of cancer are complex, but for a specific cancer, its unique risk factors can often be found. Let’s take the cervical cancer you asked about. The incidence of cervical cancer is indeed related to too many sexual partners. In the past, it was believed that the cholesterol in smegma could be transformed into carcinogens through the action of bacteria and become an important cause of cervical cancer, which illustrates the relationship between cervical cancer and sexual intercourse. In recent years, studies have found that there is a certain relationship between infection with human papillomavirus during sexual intercourse and the incidence of cervical cancer. The male reproductive organs can also be infected with these viruses and are highly contagious. Women with many sexual partners will undoubtedly have a significantly greater chance of being infected. In addition, human papillomavirus infection is particularly easy in adolescent girls because the cervical epithelium is less capable of fighting human papillomavirus infection at that time. Therefore, early sexual intercourse or promiscuity is unhealthy.

Why do men and women not have the same number of sexual partners

It seems that men all over the world are equally carefree and dissolute... Wait a minute, have you noticed something is wrong here? Sexual partners should be one-to-one, and the number of men and women in all countries in the world is close to 1:1, then the following formula should be established: male population * average number of sexual partners per male = female population *The average number of sexual partners per woman = the total number of sexual partners in the population.

In other words, the average number of sexual partners for men and women should be relatively close. At least, the difference between the two numbers should not be too large, otherwise there must be something wrong with some part of the statistics. By the way, there is one thing I forgot to mention. The above mentioned are all opposite-sex sexual partners, and the issue of the number of same-sex sexual partners is not considered in this article.

Regarding the strange phenomenon that in various surveys, the number of sexual partners of men and women is always inconsistent, and the average number of sexual partners of men is always dozens of percentage points or even several times higher than that of women, mathematicians and statisticians , economists, and sociologists have all put forward their own opinions, but there is no widely accepted explanation.