Technological advances like social media and online dating have opened up new avenues for users to meet more people as they get room to explore. Rising awareness about sexuality has also led to the importance of sex in overall well being of a person.
But while people may be more likely to have multiple sexual partners, some might just be exaggerating how much action they are getting. A study found that men are more prone to overstate the number of people they’ve had sexual encounters with.
This is seen as the reason why men are often thought to have more partners in bed than women. Meanwhile women seem to recall the exact number of people they’ve had sex with in most cases.
Results showed that men have a tendency to report extreme values and women were more accurate. Meanwhile men and women had different takes on casual sex.
A new study in The Journal of Sex Research examines exactly that. Researchers from the University of Glasgow analysed data from over 15,000 British men and women aged 16-74 in the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles to find out why men over-report more opposite-sex partners on average than women. (Men reported an average of 14 lifetime partners compared to women's seven.)
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