Thinking About "Body Counts"

A person's sexual history doesn't matter that much... unless it *really* does.

One of the most harmful falsehoods I see being set in front of young men is the idea that women are all sluts now, and therefore, love & dating isn’t even worth the effort.

This whole idea is a bottomless wellspring of weirdness, insecurity, & despair for so many young men - myself once included - so let’s talk about it.

In this issue:

  • The median woman is far less promiscuous than you probably suspect

  • Social media makes us think things are far worse than they actually are

  • The optimal body-count for your future wife is no longer zero

  • This is not to say you shouldn’t care about her past at all

Consider the following tweet. Does the argument they’re making ring true to you?

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