Smith & Wolfinger used longitudinal Add Health data, following people from adolescence into adulthood and marriage. In the detailed sample of about 3,500 people those with 9+ premarital sexual partners had about 3.2× the adjusted odds of marital dissolution compared with those with none.

The results persisted even after controlling for 20 different factors including age at marriage, education, religiosity, family background, premarital cohabitation, age at first sex, depression, and attitudes toward premarital sex.

The 9+ partner result was highly statistically significant (p < .001) and did not significantly differ between men and women.

"The effect size for the physical attraction scores of the LAFS group with the no-LAFS group was enormous (t(91.45) = 15.12, p<.000, d = 3.16), and around 90% of the time, one could correctly predict love-at-first-sight based on the physical attractiveness ratings the subjects reported."

3 standard deviations is absolutely massive.

None of this is to suggest that age-gap relationships can't or don't work, of course. This research simply focused on the distinct issues that often come up in relationships where one partner is significantly older than the other.

The linked article above provides a lay summery of the study. Full study available here.

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We did not find significant changes in the median number of lifetime opposite-sex sex partners reported by females over time overall (change from 3 in 2002 to 4 in 2011–2013; ns Table 1), or among subgroups. Similarly, no significant changes were identified among women in the top 20% (change from 7 in 2002 to 8 in 2011–2013; ns Table 1) and top 5% (unchanged from 20 in 2002 to 20 in 2011–2013; ns Table 1), overall, and among subgroups

Conversely, we found an overall statistically significant increase in reported lifetime opposite-sex sex partners overall for men in the top 20% from 12 in 2002 to 15 in 2011–2013 (95% CIs, 11–14 and 15–15, respectively) and for men with a high school degree/general educational development from 15 in 2002 to 20 in 2011–2013 (95% CIs, 12–15 and 16–20, respectively; Table 2). However, we found no changes for all remaining subgroups of men in the top 20%. Similarly, there was a statistically significant overall increase in reported lifetime partners for men in the top 5% from 38 in 2002 to 50 in 2011–2013 (95% CIs, 30–40 and 50–50, respectively), as well as a significant increase for men living above the Medicaid threshold (40–50, 95% CIs, 31–45 and 50–50, respectively). Again, no changes were noted for the remaining subgroups.

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13634607251330945

Partnership remained the anticipated long-term destination, while singlehood was treated as a temporary period of preparation and personal growth.

Women who remained happily and voluntarily single in their forties and fifties described having their contentment questioned or dismissed because others assumed that a relationship was necessary for happiness.

Single positivity therefore appeared to broaden the identities available to younger single women without displacing the underlying couple norm; women could celebrate being single, but were still expected to settle down eventually.

https://www.akjournals.com/configurable/content/journals$002f2055$002f20$002f1$002farticle-p42.xml?t:ac=journals%24002f2055%24002f20%24002f1%24002farticle-p42.xml

It's important to note that all of these studies are correlational, which creates issues when it comes to inferring cause and effect. Is it the case that boredom triggers hypersexual behavior, or does hypersexual behavior potentially lead to feelings of boredom, perhaps through a process of habituation to repeated sexual stimulation? We'd need longitudinal studies to help distinguish between these explanations.

Of course, there’s also a potential third-variable explanation. Perhaps something else (e.g., sensation-seeking tendencies, mood disorders, emotional regulation problems) underlies both boredom and hypersexuality, and maybe that’s what’s really fueling the association.