A new study suggests America’s college students may not be as libertine as previously thought.

Run around with too many partners and you run the risk of losing peer respect. Of course, if you’re saving yourself for marriage, you don’t have to worry about this at all.

You might want to be careful of who you hookup with or how many you hookup with – your peers might lose respect for you.

Researchers found that nearly 50 percent of college students judge men and women with similar sexual histories by the same standard and hold equally negative attitudes towards both their male and female peers who they believe hook up “too much.”

The research will be presented at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

Rachel Allison, co-author of the study, said men and women are increasingly judging each other on the same level playing field.

“But, gender equality and sexual liberation are not synonymous,” Allison said. “While we’ve come a long way in terms of gender equality, it seems that a large portion of both college men and women lose respect for individuals who they believe participate in too frequent casual sexual activity.”

The study surveyed more than 19,000 students from 22 different colleges.