If you ask any guy how many girls he's slept with, he'll always say at least 8 and probably 17. If you ask any girl how many men she's slept with, she'll say 4. Somebody isn't telling the truth here. The guy's slept with half the number of girls he claims and the girl's slept with twice as many guys.
This double standard merely reflects evolutionary biology. The man's physical investment in reproduction is five minutes of grunting and a tea spoon of sticky. The woman's investment is nine months of pregnancy, a year of breast feeding and eighteen years of care. It's in the male interest to sleep with as many women as possible, to spread his genes around, and in the woman's to get one mate who'll stay around long enough to provide for her and her offspring.
This is why women can have sex at any time of the month, it keeps the men from wandering - partly because they have to guard their woman against other men, partly because they can always get sex at home which is easier than going out to rape and plunder for it. It's also the reason women have hidden menstrual cycles instead of our bums turning bright pink, if we keep the guys guessing we keep the guys around.
So the fact that men and women alike lie about their sexual pasts speaks to a greater truth. We're apes with eight million years of evolution in our bones with a thin veneer of eight thousand years of culture smeared like the merest film of grime on top. How many guys have I slept with? 4 of course.
Mind you I've slept with 17 girls.
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