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>>21439793
>People didn't have sex 200 years ago.
People have had significantly fewer partners each generation since the Baby Boomers.

We don't really have a good idea how many partners people had before the modern era, but genetic evidence suggests women giving birth to children who were not their husbands was not extremely uncommon by any means. Extramarital affairs were the norm for elites at many points throughout history, and while we know less about how commoners lived, there is plenty to suggests they weren't fully monogamous (e.g., every culture having to make myriad laws about adultery and prostitution). Cult prostitutes existed in many cultures, declining at various periods.

People idealize a past that didn't exist.