"A slut is someone who has sex with lots of people, just not with you." The resentment in that final phrase supposedly helps perpetuate the negative connotation of the word "slut". Here are two simplified models of behavior to statistically explain this paradox.
Given a sample of the population, a non-slut selects a fixed number of people, typically 1, to have sex with. As the sample size increases (perhaps over time, the non-slut meets more people), that number remains fixed, perhaps always selecting subjectively the most desirable partner within the sample.
A slut selects to have sex with those people exceeding his or her fixed subjective standard of requisite desirability; this statistically works out to a fixed proportion P of a sample (assuming i.i.d. sampling), as opposed to a fixed number for the non-slut. If the sample size were to increase without bound, then the slut would have sex with an unbounded number of people: P times infinity equals infinity.
However, the probability the slut will have sex with you remains constant, namely P. Assuming P is small (but fixed), then the probability that the slut will have sex with you remains small and unchanging, even though the slut is observed to be having sex with more and more people. You will observe the opening quote with probability 1-P, a high probability.
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