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It’s no secret that society views the sexual practices of men and women in a completely different light. A typical man attempts to collect sexual partners like Ohio State football players attempt to collect decals on their helmets for a job well done. Men wear their “number” on their sleeve like a red badge of courage and often subscribe to the quantity over quality mantra, as if each successive partner is directly correlated to their manhood. A truly irrational species we are.
Women, generally speaking, are far less flamboyant about their sexual conquests. Rather than celebrating their sexual liberation, they often feel they need to exercise self-restraint in sexual promiscuity to appear worthy or untainted. American society especially views women’s “numbers” like a golf score, the lower the better. The double standard is strikingly obvious.
A new survey centered around one night stands has compounded this notion. Researchers surveyed 263 Norwegian students, a more sexually liberal people, aged between 19 and 37 who had experienced one casual sexual encounter.
They found that 35 percent of women tend to feel guilty about having a one night stand, as opposed to just 20 percent of men. Further, 60 percent of those men were annoyed by their decision to turn down their most recent opportunity at casual sex, according to Daily Mail. Only 30 percent of women reported feeling happy with their most recent one night stand. But more than half of men said the same.
One reason, researchers say, could be due to evolution and the varying attitudes towards sex. The researchers pointed to the fact that, theoretically, men can father thousands of children. This was used in the past to increase the chances of having children that would survive, which would in turn, emphasize quantity over quality.
They also say that it could be due to the woman failing to climax far more often than the man.
It could be because men had orgasms during sex to a far greater extent than the women, they found in the journal Evolutionary Psychology.
While both genders were more regretful about one night stands that did not end in them climaxing.
At the same time, nearly 80 per cent of women were happy they refused their previous chance of having casual sex.
But just 40 per cent of men feel that they made the right decision in passing up the opportunity.
Sex science, bros. Fascinating.
[h/t Daily Mail]