The most salient finding from this analysis is that women whose intimate premarital relationships are limited to their husbands—either premarital sex alone or premarital cohabitation—do not experience an increased risk of divorce.
If you are from a culture where promiscuity and cohabitation are acceptable, you will be more likely to get divorced if you marry that people from a culture where promiscuity and cohabitation are not acceptable.
OK Fine. Uh, I don't actually think cohabitation is necessarily the cause of the later divorce.
I just think the correlation between the women who are sluttier and the women who are more divorce prone is interesting. I actually think there's a cause for both and that cohabitation and divorce are outcomes of it.
The correlation of slutty behavior - not just cohabitation, but also sexual partner count - to higher divorce rate is of value in and of itself. It can be used to teach you stay away from sluts for marriage. I didn't need to know the cause of AIDS to know that the correlation between homosex and AIDS meant I should stay away from homosex.(That was among other reasons.)
Come back when you find a study that compares people of the same level of religious devotion and culture, and their rates of promiscuity and cohabitation and how they correlate to divorce and you MAY have a leg to stand on.
No. I don't care to. I find the correlation interesting.
Something caused the women to be slutty. Something caused them to want to get divorced. They seem to be found in common in certain women. Good to know!
Among those who are from a more sexualized culture and do NOT engage in promiscuity or cohabitation - are their rates of divorce actually lower - The study as designed has no way of showing that.
The study was of people in the US. I'm in the US. It's a pretty corrupt culture.
If you are trying to avoid divorce, choosing your partner based upon her sexual history, and reducing that to a number, is not going to serve you as well as picking a partner for compatibility and attributes.
They in no way established that the more slutty members of the predominant culture are more likely to get divorced, all the numbers showed is that people from traditional or religious cultures that do not cohabitate and are not promiscuous also do not divorce.
Previously this same correlation was used to imply a causative effect of increasing divorce if you choose to live together first. Absolute bunk.
Do you understand why?