If you’ve been a rockstar on OBC for years, meeting new singles, hooking up and enjoying the single life, but are a bit worried your promiscuous past might ruin your chances of marriage – you can stop worrying. According to a new study, having many sexual partners doesn’t affect your marriage chances, in the long run. Via Daily Mail:

If you’re looking for love but are plagued by a promiscuous past, fear not.

Having multiple sexual partners does not affect your marriage chances in the long-term, a study suggests.

Instead, the effects of promiscuity on marriage rates is ‘seasonal’ and the number of sexual partners accrued over a lifetime does not appear to have an impact, scientists say.

Researchers from the Universities of Utah and Oklahoma in the US analysed data on nearly 9,000 people who had been followed for 18 years up to 2015.

They discovered that the recent number of sex partners was associated with a reduction in the odds of marriage, but this effect only lasted a year – suggesting the link is temporary.

Writing in the journal Social Science Research, they said: ‘We propose that the effect of multiple sex partners on the likelihood of marriage is seasonal, reflecting a period where the persons are enjoying sexual activity with less commitment.

‘Yet having multiple sex partners does not seem to discernibly influence their odds of marriage in the long run.

‘Although heterosexual women have historically been stigmatised for having casual sex, our analyses suggest that this does not manifest itself in long-term singleness.‘

That’s right ladies – if your “hoe period” has you worried you’ll never lock down a husband, it’s time to put that fear behind you — and keep having fun right here on OBC.