As you can see, the majority of both men and women said "no way" under any circumstances; however, it's noteworthy that 42% of men and 24% of women didn't completely rule out the idea. Among those who didn't rule it out, the most common response was that it depends on the situation. What exactly does that mean? We can't say for sure without further study, but one possibility is that maybe these people would be OK with their partner's request in the context of a threesome or perhaps a cuckolding scenario, but not if their partner just went out and did their own thing.

Interestingly, nearly 1 in 10 men implied that they'd be open to the idea regardless of the details of the situation. By contrast, just 1 in 50 women were down with it no matter what. This gender difference is actually really interesting because it suggests that maybe men aren't quite as jealous about the thought of their partners having sex with others as we've been led to believe. As you may know, there's a lot of psychological research out there suggesting that men are more sexually jealous than women, but these survey results actually seem to imply the opposite--that men are less threatened by the idea of sexually sharing their partners than are women.

In addition to this gender divide, there was also an age divide. Specifically, whereas 44% of participants under 30 didn't rule out the idea of their partner sleeping with someone else, just half (22%) of the participants over 65 said the same thing. This is further evidence that millennials aren't subscribing to the same monogamy norm as generations past.

In short, what these results tell us is that, while most Americans aren't crazy about the idea of sexually sharing their partners with other people, a sizable percentage of the population--especially in the male and under 30 crowd--is at least willing to contemplate the possibility.

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