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I still want to go out and have sex with a million girls.&quot; He believes that he&#39;s figured out how to do that:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Girls are easier to mislead than guys just by lying or just not really caring. If you know what girls want, then you know you should not give that to them until the proper time. If you do that strategically, then you can really have anything you want &hellip; whether it&#39;s a relationship, sex, or whatever. You have the control.<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Kevin was one of 100 men and women, from a cross-section of American communities that researchers interviewed as they sought to understand how adults in their 20s and early 30s think about their relationships. He sounds like a jerk. 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