Pardon My French

I know women who have had 50 partners who I wouldn’t call promiscuous, in the sense of not choosing, and I know women who have had only 5 who are or were promiscuous, in the sense of being indiscriminate. Using “promiscuous” as a synonym for “slut” implies that the woman is careless or has no standards of choice at all. Very few people fall into that category, and belonging to that category has nothing to do with a number or scorecard. A person who is genuinely promiscuous will almost always have a large number of sexual partners, eventually, but not everyone who has a ‘large’ number is (or ever was) promiscuous.

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