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> Why is 23 partners a red flag?

For the same reason you don't want to deal with a client who's churned through 23 other contractors before you either, or an employee who's held 23 other jobs.

They're either high-conflict, non-committal, fishing for something and not finding it, using sex as a coping mechanism/don't take the act itself seriously (won't be the last time you hear them tell you sex with strangers "means nothing;" just wait until your first big fight). There's also disease risk (mainly herpes).

Nothing about a body count that high signals stability or commitment. I'm sure plenty of people can and do change and can commit and be stable; we could be friends but they are not people I would bet the rest of my life on. The only three people (two males, one female) I know with body counts that high all got caught soliciting or banging children decades later, so my experience with this is admittedly subjective.



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