Everyone knows that, on average, men are more ’slutty’ and selfish, than women, right? There is a strong tendency to condemn the male sex in general, as being promiscuous, and bad. All we are talking about here is the notion that the average man has more (different) sexual partners than the average woman. Well if we define “the average number of different sexual partners” as an appropriate measure of promiscuity, this assertion is demonstrably flawed… I’ll show you.

To demonstrate why this assumption is flawed, imagine a closed world of five men and five women, and imagine that they were all ’straight’. This is not my vision of utopia, just some simplifying assumptions to illustrate a point. If only one man has sex with only one woman, sex takes place only once in this world; and the average number of partners is 1/5 for both men and women. If two different men are with two different women then the average number of partners is 2/5 for both; three men with three women equals 3/5 for both, and so on.

OK, but we know men are sluttier, right? So let’s see what happens when men try to get more sex than women. Let’s say, for example, that one man has sex with two different women. Here, the average for men is 2/5 and the average for women is also 2/5! The same sluttiness equality between the average man and the average woman results no matter how slutty the men try to be. Furthermore, the same mathematical equality results, no matter how many of the men try to get slutty. If the men have sex many times with the same women, we still get the same result; namely male sluttiness = female sluttiness. The inescapable mathematics of this simplified fornication model lead us to the stunning conclusion that (at least in this closed world with simplifying assumptions) it is actually impossible for the average man to be more ’slutty’ than the average woman. The mathematics applies to all situations of equal men and women regardless of whether it is five, fifty, or five billion. The simple reason for this is that for each man that has sex with a unique (different) woman there must be a unique woman that also had sex with that man. If five men have sex with the same woman, there are five normal, one-woman guys on the male side, and the female side is balanced with four virgins and a ’slut’. But they are equal, on average!

Now let’s relax the assumption that there are equal numbers of men and women. After all, maybe women live longer, on average, and maybe there are, in fact, more women than men in the world. Let’s say in our simplified world that there are six women and five men. Now if each of the men had sex with only one woman, the average number of partners for men would be 5/5=1, but the average for women would now be 5/6<1. In this situation there could be a (small) difference in ’sluttiness’. Now the interesting question that arises is: Do we want a world in which the men withhold sex from female number six, just to be in keeping with a less ’slutty’ model of behaviour? Would we really want a world in which one in six women don’t get any sex, just to keep the averages! I don’t think so, but let’s ask woman number six…

Bear in mind that if there are significant differences between male and female homosexuals, then putting aside the assumption of everyone being ’straight’ can allow some serious imbalances in sluttiness. Other than that the only way it is even possible for men to be more promiscuous than women, is if there are more women around. But if there are more women than there are men around to take care of them, Surely, it is every mans duty to take on a little ‘extra’ even if they are a little older! And they call us the selfish sex!

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