Re:Here’s what Ashley Madison members have told me
by rdancer on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @07:21PM
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> there's a smaller group of women who sleep with a greater number of men
That's a falacy. If a small number of women raise the number of their sexual partners, the rest of the women must lower their number of sexual partners, to keep the average the same. That's not the way to explain the deficit.
Re:Here’s what Ashley Madison members have told me
by peterwwillis on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @10:12AM
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The average number of women who cheat? Or of men? Either one doesn't change if a small group of women has a larger number of partners, though the average of men who cheat may increase.
The simplest answer to your question ("who are all those extra men partnering with?") is incredibly simple: there's a smaller group of women who sleep with a greater number of men than vice-versa. And this makes total sense if you consider that women have more choice of partners, and men have less, and that there's a larger pool of men looking for purely physical/sexual relationships. Basically the availability of men is greater, the availability of women is smaller, and so the reported number of women cheating is smaller, and the reported number of men cheating is larger.