I don't use the cock carousel to describe a woman having 2-3 boyfriends in highschool.
I'm talking about 30 year old women that have fucked 40+ men and are incapable of forming emotional bonding with another human, but decide they want to "settle down with a nice man" because they think it will improve their life and give them something they feel they are "missing".
The 4 years of college... which tends to add at least 15 or more to any attractive woman's partner count, is shitty for them, but good for me who doesn't mind fucking emotionally damaged women.
And yes, men and women are very different in that aspect. My current LTR is a widow, and she claims to have only had sex with 2 men, at the age of 25. (my own number is around 50 times that) I've considered it's possible she is telling the truth. (immigrant and not knowing many guys since moving to the u.s.), but I still treat her shit tests the same way as I would any woman's shit tests, and it's been working out great for me. She loves being dominated in the bedroom, and being led outside the bedroom. Was at her house 2 weeks ago and she left to go to work and let me sleep in. She left her laptop open, sure enough she was still emailing/flirting with a man who lived out in California (about 40 messages spread out over a week). Has she fucked him? from the exchange it was obviously she hadn't... but EVERY woman is always looking to branch swing, and collect orbiters. Did it bother me? No, but I thought it was funny that she was trying to get me to stop talking to/dating other women WHILE having that back and forth email exchange, she wanted to secure my exclusivity while not being exclusive herself.
AWALT, even the ones with low partner counts.