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You seem to have an extremely warped view of female promiscuity. I'm in my late twenties and am a PMC, cosmopolitan:
The average 'number' of most of my friends (after 10-14+ years of having sex) is somewhere between 4 and 12 sexual partners. There are absolutely some very promiscuous outliers (and the opposite), but most women aren't 'fucking randos'. A substantial proportion of them have never had sex outside of a 'real' relationship. Most have never fucked someone from an app. Almost none of these people are socially conservative (actually the only right-adjacent, tradcath-meme-posting, red-scare-listening woman I know is one of the most promiscuous people I've met lol), almost all grew up in NYC etc.
I think for some men who get a lot of self-worth from casual sex, admitting that the women they're fucking are all from the most promiscuous decile of the female population dampens their perceived manly achievements. They would much rather believe that the girls they're fucking are outwardly 'good girls' caving into their masculinity while stringing along a sexless beta provider orbiter on the side until they decide to settle down, than accept that they're part of a (comparatively) small group of promiscuous men sleeping with a (comparatively) small group of promiscuous women who are, for lack of a better term, easy.
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