I've dated people with hundreds of past partners and I've dated kissless virgins. People are people.
Not everyone is promiscuous; not everyone is a prude.
They’re suggesting that data (trends and averages) contradict your perception, which is mostly based on anecdata and your own feeling I imagine.
You should entertain that option, since that’s the whole point of looking at data.
This is super creepy.
I've no patience for this talk. Repressing your natural sexual feelings and inculcating shame and guilt about your body is disastrous. Condoms and medical progress got us safe sex, and women's lib got us proper consent: the two only requirements to go ahead and have a good time.
He has his preferences. That's okay! But he should make peace with his views instead of trying to shame 20 year olds for (gasp!) fucking each other.
> Are we going to deny there was less promiscuity in the past?
The data indeed shows that there was not less, but more promiscuity in the recent past that the previous poster mentioned:
https://ifstudies.org/blog/nine-decades-of-promiscuity
Men's promiscuity peaked in the generation born around 1930 and has been declining since.
Women's promiscuity peaked in the generation born in the 1950s and hasn't changed much since then (at 5-6 lifetime partners, a fair degree shy of your "7 by the time they leave college").