"More sexual partners seems to correlate with higher divorce ratings. In 2000, the Center for Disease Control began tracking women who had reported different numbers of extramarital partners. Within five years, only 5% of women with 0 sexual partners before marriage had divorced. Women who had reported just one single sexual partner before marriage jumped up to a 22% divorce rate. That’s a 17% increase due to just one partner. The average for 2-9 partners was 30%, and above 10 partners was 35%." Studies Mentioned: Mary Eberstadt, “Adam and Eve After the Pill,” https://www.amazon.com/Adam-Eve-After-Pill-Revolution/dp/1586178229 Nicholas H. Wolfinger, “Counterintuitive Trends in the Link between Premarital Sex and Marital Stability,” https://ifstudies.org/blog/counterintuitive-trends-in-the-link-between-premarital-sex-and-marital-stability “Sexually Transmitted Diseases — Reported Cases and Rates of Reported Cases*, United States, 1941–2021,” https://www.cdc.gov/std/statistics/2021/tables/1.htm “Reported STDs in the United States,” https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/fact-sheets/std/std-us-2021.html Scott Stanley and Galena Rhoades, “Premarital Cohabitation is Still Associated with Greater Odds of Divorce,” https://ifstudies.org/blog/premarital-cohabitation-is-still-associated-with-greater-odds-of-divorce Michael J. Rosenfeld and Katharina Roesler, “Cohabitation Experience and Cohabitation’s Association with Marital Dissolution,” https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_and_Roesler_Cohabitation_Experience_NSFG.pdf Colleen N. Nugent and Jill Daughtery, “A Demographic, Attitudinal, and Behavioral Profile of Cohabitating Adults in the United States,” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29874161/ Meg Jay, “Downside of Cohabitating before Marriage” https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/opinion/sunday/the-downside-of-cohabiting-before-marriage.html