That they were doing this for him on this night as a particular event." "It's that they wanted the man to understand that they weren't like this normally. "It's not that they wanted the man to whisk them off and marry them," Campbell told LiveScience. Total regret."Ĭontrary to popular belief, women said they didn't view casual sex as a prelude to a long-term relationship. Women predominantly reported "regret at being used," with additional comments including: "I felt cheap," "horrified afterward," and "I felt degraded. While 80 percent of men had overall positive feelings, just 54 percent of women had positive feelings. Overall women's morning-after feelings were more negative than men's. Of the heterosexual respondents, more than half reported a one-night stand, about evenly split between men and women. These advantages could explain why women participate in one-night stands even though they feel so lousy afterward.įlings provide women with the potential to snag the best genes for offspring or they could be spurred by a chemical nudge at the peak of the menstrual cycle.Ĭampbell surveyed more than 3,300 individuals, most of whom were between the ages of 17 and 40. However, promiscuity does offer natural advantages for women from an evolutionary perspective, Shackelford said. "It's not surprising they indicate the experience is somewhat less positive, but importantly somewhat more negative." "The bottom line is the risks are potentially greater for women," said Todd Shackelford, an evolutionary psychologist at Florida Atlantic University who was not involved in the current study. For the ladies, a baby on the way is a huge responsibility, but a guy can just bail. Women have much more to lose, while men are in a win-win situation. While most research on the topic of casual sex has relied on fictitious vignettes or just having participants imagine they had a one-night stand, the new findings are based on self-reports of feelings following an actual hook-up.Ĭampbell says in the June issue of the journal Human Nature that the findings suggest women are not well adapted to promiscuity. She added, "No woman should be flattered because a man wants to have sex with her once." "What women don't seem to see is that men drop their standards massively for a one-night stand." It was so nice to be wanted,'" said researcher Anne Campbell, a psychologist at Durham University in England. "Often said things like, 'I felt so flattered, so happy that he found me attractive.
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