Promiscuous people are not the best marriage material.
I'm not sure that works. Someone who is a virgin at marriage is competent at not having sex. That can stress marriages as much as having sex with other people can. I'm not sure sex life before marriage says much about what it will be afterwards.
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We've been exclusive for 18 years now. Prior to this, this was very much not the case. Sowing one's wild oats can be a thing. Cheating before marriage could be a better indicator. If someone has had sex with 20 people but kept the rules of every relationship they've been in...
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Possible. I am just challenging the correlation/cause-effect assumptions of the article, which seemed to claim that preventing pre-marital sex will increase the success of marriage.
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I am challenging them too. It seems much more likely that a third factor is responsible for both choices.
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And that would be?
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Conservative, probably religious values. Would you be surprised if Muslims were overrepresented and atheists under-represented here?
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Do those values cause sexually active people to experience a higher rate of marital failure?
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Huh? I am saying they probably explain decisions to wait for marriage and to stay married in many cases
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Rather than waiting for marriage causing the marriages to last.
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Are marriages more likely to end as the result of pre-marital sexual inexperience or cheating?
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Those aren't the parallels. The parallels are sexual experience or sexual inexperience. Neither of those tell us much. Having sex with other people or not having sex with your spouse. Both of those could wreck it but shouldn't be anticipated due to premarriage norm.
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