Ozempic works by making you not want to eat the pizzas. It’ll never be a performance enhancing drug for sports because the top levels already have nutrition habits indistinguishable from eating disorders.

Almost everyone I know who would be interested in that, while not dating or otherwise committed to someone else, without some kind of religious baggage or ethical qualms that prevents them from wanting to have a one-night stand, has been successful at least once or twice. But those caveats really do carve people out: the guy who was in a committed relationship from 20-22 while attending that party school, the guy who has religious reasons not to have low commitment sex, etc.

And that window doesn’t last forever. Men who tend to be charismatic enough to find a quick partner also tend to be charismatic enough to find a stable partner. So a hookup phase tends to give way to a serious relationship, especially when hooking up with a woman who otherwise stands out from the others in terms of some kind of specific compatibility.

So stringing that together multiple times in the phase of your life where you might want to do that instead of a committed relationship, enough to move past the 5-9 number, seems much more unusual to me.

For me, I think I basically only had a 1 year window where I lived in a city where hookups with strangers was feasible and where I wasn’t already committed to a monogamous relationship. And I had some hookups that year, but ended up in a serious relationship by the end of that 12-month period. And when I got out of that relationship I had basically a few dates before meeting my wife and falling in love with her.

In other words, even among the men I know who had lots of hookups in their 20’s tended to be married by 30 anyway, so it’s a limited window of time.

I could see it. A substantial number of men go through several long relationships and meet their monogamous life partner before they hit even their third or fourth serious relationship. And a string of 3+ year monogamous relationships starts adding up so that you’re old before you hit 10 partners.

Even the short term relationships are pretty unusual, and require some ramp up of building connections. It still usually takes a few days or weeks of dates and text messages for most people to be comfortable having sex with someone they only recently met. Even among incredibly attractive and charismatic men, the same-night hookup is pretty rare.

So a pretty typical lifecycle of the attractive man is something like high school sweethearts, then maybe 1-2 college girlfriends, then maybe 2-3 serious girlfriends after that before marrying someone and being monogamous. Even throwing in a few short term flings, you’re still not typically getting up to 10 partners. And that’s for a pretty attractive guy who can easily attract women.

And if we’re being honest, first time sex with a new partner just isn’t as fun as sex with someone you’ve already had sex with 10+ times, so there’s plenty of reason to want to keep the same partner over time.

What you’re talking about is an important part of the challenges of translation between cultures and languages. Words for categories don’t always translate neatly.

Take, for example, the English words for Lemon and Lime. Many languages don’t distinguish between the two, and at most will call the lime a green lemon.

The word for “seafood” in many other languages may inherently exclude freshwater fish, or all fish, whereas in American English it usually includes all fish.

The two English categories of “bread” and “pastry” map onto three categories of “pain”/“viennoiserie”/“pâtisserie” in French, because enriched breads aren’t considered bread.

Many languages don’t have a different word between red and pink, and instead just call pink “light red” or something. Some languages distinguish light blue from blue, and may define the demarcation between green and blue differently.

I’m pretty sure there are languages that don’t distinguish between alligators and crocodiles, goats and sheep, turtles and tortoises, too.

With cultural mythologies, it’s especially interesting on whether we decided to use the same words for the different culturally independent myths: dragons, vampires, zombies, ghosts, demons, devils, gods, demigods, fairies, wizards, etc.

And so when talking about whether a culture or language distinguishes between mermaids and sirens, or whether they’re considered the same thing, is just an extension of the broader observation that not everything translates neatly into the same categories across all languages.