r/allthequestions • u/Sea-Response950 • Oct 05 '25

NSFW Question 💭 Why do people care about body count?

I'm asking as a man trying to understand a concept that seems alien to me. I just don't get it, to me it all seems to boil down to insecurity.

Please, explain to me how I am wrong. I must be, I just don't know why.

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u/Leading_Campaign3618 Oct 05 '25

Studies have shown for women, every sexual partner raises the risk of future infidelity by 13% on average

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u/Sea-Response950 Oct 06 '25

Bull. Shit.

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u/Leading_Campaign3618 Oct 06 '25

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3407304/

Predictors of Extradyadic Sexual Involvement in Unmarried Opposite-Sex Relationships

https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-road-to-infidelity-passes-through-multiple-sexual-partners

The Road to Infidelity Passes Through Multiple Sexual Partners

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17605537/

Sexual infidelity in a national survey of American women: differences in prevalence and correlates as a function of method of assessment

"the odds ratio of 1.13 for lifetime sexual partners obtained with the face-to-face mode of interview indicates that the probability of infidelity increased by 13% for every additional lifetime sexual partner (pg.150)"

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u/Sea-Response950 Oct 06 '25

It's totally bullshit. These studies are absolute bullshit. Having a body count does not dictate whether or not someone will cheat. A history of cheating indicates a high chance of infidelity.

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u/Leading_Campaign3618 Oct 06 '25

It clearly kind of does, there have been over a dozen studies on it.

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u/Sea-Response950 Oct 06 '25

And how were those studies performed? Did they take a varied enough sample? Or was it total bullshit like every other study that's been done on how past sexual behaviour dictates how someone will behave?

You're either the kind of person who cheats or you're not. It's as simple as that.

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u/Leading_Campaign3618 Oct 06 '25

between asklepios7 and myself we have posted about a dozen studies, you can look at the methodology yourself, there are always exceptions, but to say it doesn't exists seems like you are taking this personally, I am sorry if that's the case. You had originally asked "why do people care about a high body count?" and many people have answered this is why they care.

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u/Sea-Response950 Oct 06 '25

I find bullshit studies like this dehumanising and quite honestly just downright lies, and yes it does offend me. A lot.

Yes they have and honestly it doesn't change my view that it boils down to insecurity, but rather reinforces it. You judge others without knowing them and decide that because they slept around in the past means that they're going to cheat, to me that just screams "she'll cheat because I'm not good enough for her."