Well, duh, most of you (like myself) would probably say to this statement “Men tend to have the biological tendency to sleep around with more women than women do with men.” Well, we can always say there are anomalies for every cliche, but for the cliche that men are much more sexually active if they can be and are in a position to be and can attract women with those pheromones some of us have more than others, than women, this one actually holds true according to new research data that backs up the oldest cliche in the book when it comes to the difference between men and women when it comes to sex. 

To be more exact on numbers of sexual partners and how this figure differs between men and women, women surveyed saying they were somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 and more sexual partners was only around ten percent, while men surveyed saying their sexual partners numbered 15 or more so far in their life were around thirty percent, showing a substantial disconnect between the male and female sex when it comes to numbers of sexual partners throughout life. 

These numbers would, of course, suggest that men tend to sleep around more than women and be more inclined to have more sex partners in their life than women.  Biologically we do know that men are driven more to have sex, but there are also women who have sex drives that equal and even surpass those of the average man, and this is usually considered somewhat of an anomaly, no matter how unfair that is to the woman. 

Think of the HBO series “Sex and the City” where the “nymphomaniac” character Samantha played by Kim Catrall was considered to be somewhat loose.  Men who would play that character would be considered a “ladies man” or just a normal guy who’s looking to get some action everywhere he goes, but for women, the idea is more of a societal taboo, which I would say definitely accounts for the disparity in the percentage figures we discussed for sex partner numbers througout lifetime. 

It’s interesting to note that the median, or average number of sexual partners differ significantly from that “15″ number we discussed above though, with men at about 7 partners and women at about 4 partners for their lives most of the times, showing that we aren’t just a bunch of animals having sex with everyone, but also that we as a species are more inclined toward monogamy and staying with partners longer. 

This same survey not only focused on sex partner numbers, but also on chastity until marriage views, and divisions of various races and how their sexual views and experiences differed, and it also coupled illicity drug use with the survey, and made correlations between sexual behavior and drug use reporting (that’s for another story though!)