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Realities of One-Night Stands Revealed
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/...standsrevealed
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When it comes to one-night stands, men and women are poles apart. Guys just want, well, you know, while gals go to bed with the false impression of flattery and a craving for feeling desirable.
The upshot, according to new research, is great for most men and the pits for most women. The study goes further under the covers, delving into the nuances of casual sex and its potential as a Venus-and-Mars minefield.
Among the findings: Women were not hooking up in an effort to secure a long-term beau, but because they felt flattered by the overnight proposition.
They were mistaken.
As the researcher points out, men lower their standards when it comes to one-night stands, so the presumed flattery is a fantasy or close to it.
"Often [women] said things like, 'I felt so flattered, so happy that he found me attractive. It was so nice to be wanted,'" said researcher Anne Campbell, a psychologist at Durham University in England. "What women don't seem to see is that men drop their standards massively for a one-night stand."
She added, "No woman should be flattered because a man wants to have sex with her once."
Real feelings, real data
While most research on the topic of casual sex has relied on fic ious 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.
Campbell says in the June issue of the journal Human Nature that the findings suggest women are not well adapted to promiscuity.
Women have much more to lose, while men are in a win-win situation. For the ladies, a baby on the way is a huge responsibility, but a guy can just bail.
"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. "It's not surprising they indicate the experience is somewhat less positive, but importantly somewhat more negative."
However, promiscuity does offer natural advantages for women from an evolutionary perspective, Shackelford said. These advantages could explain why women participate in one-night stands even though they feel so lousy afterward.
Flings 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.
The morning after
Campbell surveyed more than 3,300 individual, most of whome were between the ages of 17 and 40. Of the heterosexual respondents, more than half reported a one-night stand, about evenly split between men and women.
Overall women's morning-after feelings were more negative than men's. While 80 percent of men had overall positive feelings, just 54 percent of women had positive feelings.
Women predominantly reported "regret at being used," with additional comments including: "I felt cheap," "horrified afterward," and "I felt degraded. Made myself look cheap and easy. Total regret."
Contrary to popular belief, women said they didn't view casual sex as a prelude to a long-term relationship.
"It's not that they wanted the man to whisk them off and marry them," Campbell told LiveScience. "It's that they wanted the man to understand that they weren't like this normally. That they were doing this for him on this night as a particular event."
Men reported feelings of success since the partner was desirable to others and found the experiences much more sexually satisfying than women did.
Typical positive comments from men included: "euphoric," "excitement and lust," "I believe that one-night stands are a good way of blowing off steam."
For men who reported negative feelings, the prevailing tone was one of emptiness and loneliness.
Why women do it
Why then, if women feel so crappy after a casual roll in the hay, do they hop in again?
They could be collecting healthy genes for their offspring. So even if a woman can't score a lengthy relationship with a guy whose sperm could offer, say, disease-resistant genes or genes for a particular kind of intelligence, her thinking might be, "Why not grab the guy for sex?"
"If you've got a Brad Pitt character - absolutely gorgeous and incredibly loaded with money and so on - the chances of getting him to commit himself to you for the rest of your life are pretty slim," Campbell said. "But the chances of him giving you a half an hour on a Wednesday afternoon in a hotel are probably much better."
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Why can't women just want to like we do? god damn women complicate everything.
I always felt dirty and used after a one-night stand.
i think women are more complicated than figuring out why we're here.
That is why the booty call is tops. Back before I got married I had a few girls who didn't even want to kiss. Just come over, do it, talk for a bit and go home.
Dying breedThat is why the booty call is tops. Back before I got married I had a few girls who didn't even want to kiss. Just come over, do it, talk for a bit and go home.
Feelings are overrated.
you think so? I see all these reports about how kids as young as 13-15 are having "hook ups" with no "relationship" issues to deal with.
See that was my whole point for posting this, I'm really surprised that these at udes are so prevalent. I'm a woman, I've met lots of women in my life, and most of them really do just want to do it. But they just haven't gotten past the stigma that they are " s" if they admit it.
That is why the booty call is tops. Back before I got married I had a few girls who didn't even want to kiss. Just come over, do it, talk for a bit and go home.
I don't know about that. I get a great feeling when I'm having sex.
One night stands make u a better person ladies. That way when u meet ur future husband and you get married, you'll be the freak u should be.
Lovie-dovie feelings.
Go ahead and have them PM me.
"And next on Nightline: Water is wet, the sky is blue, and the Pope wears a funny hat."
Smoochie Smoochie.
the realities of a one night stand is that bodily fluids were exchanged. nothing really beyond that.
Looks like someone is needing some validation to spread her legs.
There's a ton of 'just want sex' types up here in Dallas. I think the women think that way more than the guys do, if it's possible
i fully endorse this statement, and ahf, it's overwhelmingly possible.There's a ton of 'just want sex' types up here in Dallas. I think the women think that way more than the guys do, if it's possible
I've never had a one-night stand with a man, but it's not because I have an aversion to casual sex.
I've never had a problem separating sex from relationships and can easily get physical without that kind of emotional attachment, but there has to be at least some level of trust there. And an understanding that we're both on the same page about what is or isn't expected after the hook-up. That's the part that I usually find is lacking with a guy I've just met, so I've just never gone there. Huge fan of having friends with benefits, though.
Why not? We may lower our standards but we don't completely ABANDON them..."What women don't seem to see is that men drop their standards massively for a one-night stand."
She added, "No woman should be flattered because a man wants to have sex with her once."
I agree 100% on the trust part. I think women would generally be more comfortable expressing themselves sexually if men's at udes were a little different. If two people are looking for the same thing, it's equal; but there's a good chance that the next day the guy is going to be out shooting his mouth off or posting on some forum about the he nailed the night before. If both were after the same thing, why does the woman automatically become the joke?
Men would be smart to realize that a little bit of decorum would get them a lot more of what they want.
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