One traditional hypothesized narrative of why men find promiscuous women less desirable is that a non-promiscuous mate increases the assurance that the child really is your biological offspring and not of some other father. (In contrast, a woman does not need to worry about this, hence the asymmetry between how promiscuous females are regarded, "sluts", and promiscuous males, "studs")
However, technologies such as birth control, pregnancy tests, prenatal paternity tests, low-cost and safe abortions, and even legal "technology" such as pre-nuptial agreements, divorces, and child support make it much easier to discover and take action against an unfaithful wife.
These technologies are relatively new, some perhaps only a generation old. Human behavior of mate selection may lag technological developments by a while. However, if it does catch up, we may be in for a future where promiscuity in women is no longer considered shameful, a future so vastly different from the present as to be incomprehensible.
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