2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/21474In a recent paper, James Holland Jones and Mark Handcock re-analyze two of the four datasets comprising a database, first analyzed by us, which records the number of distinct sexual partners for Swedish men and women. We argue that the claims of Jones and Handcock can be interpreted in a misleading fashion.6 pagesDisordered Systems and Neural NetworksStatistical MechanicsDistributions of number of sexual partnerships have power law decaying tails and finite variancetext