How many should it be? It is not simply a matter of choice or statistics. As a recipient of peoples hard earned cash almost 10 years ago to run a programme targeted at promoting "sexual responsibility" among "Africans/Kenyan youth" following HIV disaster, the best/ideal scenario should be "being faithful to one partner". That means e.g in a christian marriage, one partner for both male and female for life, in many of our Muungu fearing African (e.g maasai is different) cultures and Islam, Hebrew, e.t.c It is A MUST the woman still stays with one partner, the man is "faithful" to a specified number of women, as long as the woman stays faithful to one man only, it is OK, otherwise it is ADULTERY in Islam 4 in African as many as required as long as they are faithful and "God fearing" as that was Solomon's only error (some of his many women had been screwed elsewhere). Such sexual relationships are sustainable and above all "safe", socially desirable, and with good spiritual foundation.
However "safe" in the modern world encompasses finance and not just tradition. Finance, beyond ethics, really is the critical issue when it comes to choice of eating for the male, in any case, prostitutes are at ever corner "for sale" globally. Several studies definitively show that the primary cause for divorce, especially when modern women are polled, is not FIDELITY but FINANCE or SOCIAL STATUS, not 'good sex', 'love', 'handsome', 'smoothie' e.t.c but a "broke" jamaa, e.t.c the modern woman will divorce, madharau or ultimately cheat (whether he knows it or not) on the man man due to his "low status" at work e.t.c as she see it, "successful" men on the other hand are known to cheat on their wives, monied men can eat as many "modern women" and "sluts" as they want, yet the same wives remain faithful to that one same man. So finance at the end rules the day. Therefore, pay a god bride price and eat as many as you can.
In simple words, when it comes to 'eating women', make it sustainable and responsible!
Ras Kienyeji Man