Abstract
ABSTRACT The relationship between love styles and lifetime number of sexual partners was explored using survey data from 507 college students. Love styles significantly (p < .001) contributed to the prediction of number of lifetime sex partners after controlling for demographic characteristics and attitudes toward sexually transmitted infections. In the final model (R 2 = .22), number of sex partners was positively correlated (p < .001) with respondent age, romantic lovers (eros), and game-playing (ludus) lovers, and was negatively correlated with religiosity (p < .05). The results suggest that the Love Attitudes Scale may provide an indirect measure of number of sex partners when direct assessment of risk for sexually transmitted infections is not feasible.
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