It is not uncommon also for African men to have multiple partners and still have their monogamous partner.
And why valorize the so-called men's goals of having multiple partners and sex without emotional bonds?
By contrast, if you are straight but promiscuous with multiple partners and practising unsafe sex, you can.
"Our husbands can have multiple partners and put us in danger," she said.
It is widely accepted that a person can have multiple partners and have children with such partners.
Though you wouldn't guess it from mainstream cinema, there do exist women who have sex with multiple partners and feel perfectly happy about it.
"The big, looming, difficult problem to crack is the general adult population and the millions of people with multiple partners and overlapping relationships.
Fenway identifies the most high-risk carriers — crystal-meth addicts, people with multiple partners — and tries to persuade them to abandon unprotected sex.
But epidemiologists have realized that such a method — usually applied in big urban clinics because it was more efficient — oversampled prostitutes, drug abusers and people with multiple partners, and ignored rural women.
There are thought to be 10,000 to 15,000 people considered to be at high risk of infection because they have multiple partners and sometimes do not use condoms.
Whether or not the species uses a specific mating strategy is unknown, but elements of both promiscuous (where members of both sexes mate with multiple partners) and polygynous (where males mate with multiple females) mating have been observed.
