My quick skim seems to suggest that this is a correlative study, so the way that this title is phrased is misleading, I think. A major alternative explanation that’s completely not mentioned is that people who produce more sperm are also more likely to suspect their partners were not faithful.
For instance, perhaps baseline stress or paranoia induces sperm maturation through some sort of hormonal signaling, and it also causes people to be more suspicious of other people.
And abstinence is correlated with both phenomena.
Yep.
Does this mean that if you’re trying for a baby, you should think about your wife with other people?
That’s not paradox tho??
the word paradox has basically lost all meaning at this point
the paradox of the uneaten pizza :OOOOOOOO
So, poly couples are more likely to get pregnant?
I think only if he felt threatened by the others. Like the jizz competition is not inherent but rather stimulated by the dudes worry of being out jizzed by his partner’s man whores.
I seemed to recall something a long time ago similar to this about men who went off for long periods like truckers and military.
