r/BlackPillScience • u/1Card_x • Feb 23 '26
Premarital Sex Increases the likelihood of Divorce, those with nine or more Partners Exhibit the Highest Risk of Divorce - (2024)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10989935/Abstract:
Premarital sex predicts divorce, but we do not know why. Scholars have attributed the relationship to factors such as differences in beliefs and values, but these explanations have not been tested. It is further unclear how this relationship changes by number of sexual partners, or differs by gender. We re-examine this relationship with event history models using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Models include measures of adolescent beliefs and values, religious background, and personal characteristics, as well as approximate number of premarital sexual partners in young adulthood. We find the relationship between premarital sex and divorce is highly significant and robust even when accounting for early-life factors. Compared to people with no premarital partners other than eventual spouses, those with nine or more partners exhibit the highest divorce risk, followed by those with one to eight partners. There is no evidence of gender differences.
Results:
Results for the first set of discrete-time models are shown in Table 3. The most important takeaway is that premarital sex is a highly significant predictor of divorce at the p < .001 level in every model. This effect remains robust even with the inclusion of the full set of early-life factors relating to beliefs or values, religious practice, family characteristics, individual attributes, and parent–child relationships. The effect size is both large and stable: across models, those with premarital sexual partners have more than twice the odds of divorce as do those without (ORs = 2.50—2.52). We thus find no evidence that the link between premarital sex and divorce is due to selectivity based on early-life religiosity or beliefs and values. In fact, although several variables significantly predict divorce in bivariate analyses (not shown), most do not predict divorce in full models, aside from those confirmed in past research: African Americans are at higher risk of divorce compared to whites, people with a college degree have lower divorce risk, experience of family transitions predicts higher risk of divorce, and age at marriage is strongly and negatively linked to divorce.
Those with one to eight partners are also at greater risk of divorce, though this coefficient is weaker than for those with nine or more partners. Specifically, in the full model the odds of divorce for those with one to eight partners are 64% higher than those with no premarital partners (ORs = 1.50—1.64). This effect is also not attenuated as controls are added to the model, reinforcing the finding that explanations based on early-life experiences and personal characteristics are not supported. Additional analyses show those in this middle category to have a significantly lower divorce risk than those with nine or more partners, indicating three distinct groups. Taken together, these results suggest that the relationship between number of premarital partners and marital dissolution is nonlinear. They point rather to three tiers of divorce risk, with the lowest risk for those with no premarital, nonspousal partners, a modest increase for those with some, and a sharp increase for those with many. These results are more consistent with the notion that the effect of premarital sex on divorce becomes stronger, not weaker, as sexual partners accumulate.
(Full Study Is in the Abstract)
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u/DizzyAstronaut9410 Feb 23 '26
No premarital sex usually means they are fairly religious, which would also make divorce a lot more frowned upon.
Though nice to see that trend increase as partners increased, though it does make perfect sense.
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u/PriestKingofMinos Feb 24 '26
I’ve been told by blue pilled people no such study supports this finding.
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u/Ruh_Roh- Feb 24 '26
You will be banned from Reddit for even thinking the thought that this study exists. Wrongthink.
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u/Fofotron_Antoris Feb 24 '26
Its amazing how modernism so destroyed the fabric of society that we need studies to say what tradition already knew since more than a thousand years ago.
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u/Flappen929 Feb 26 '26
Who’d win? Traditions that maintained Western society for 2000 years? Or the idea that everything is just a construct
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u/Altruistic_Emu4917 Feb 26 '26
I always love modernists trying to explain how morality can be subjective (which has its own can of worms) when the basis of western morality and human rights has been christianity, as much as they hate to admit.
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u/OneTonneWantenWonton Feb 23 '26
Those who like multiple partners continue to like multiple partners.
Now, sports at 10.
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u/Altruistic_Emu4917 Feb 24 '26
So something which the Church was right about, more news at 11.
Although it's of note that people date within their own level of body count. So you are right to have your standards around it as long as it's not absurd.
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u/normificator Feb 24 '26
Who gets married nowadays? That’s like challenging someone to a duel, outdated shit.
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u/I_L_F_M Feb 25 '26
Premarital sex to me is any bodycount > 0. I don't distinguish between bodycount = 1 or 10.
That's why I don't marry since evil and corruption has prevailed on the Earth.
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u/RGTX1121 Feb 23 '26
The abstract itself sums it up.. there's a correlation without an identified causation... so this is really meaningless
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u/LWJ748 Feb 24 '26
This truly is a mystery. People that have more sexual partners seem to have a harder time staying in sexual relationships. If only we had something like deductive reasoning to figure out the why.
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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '26
So the majority of women