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The No. 1 Reason Men Have Casual Sex

October 11, 2009, 08:30 PM Post Comments
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Men are far more likely to seek out and have casual sex than women for one simple reason: They want it. That's the word from British researchers who questioned 860 young American, German and Italian men and women to find out their attitudes about one-night stands. HealthDay News reports the men were not only more likely than the women to agree to casual sex, but also they expressed a greater desire for it than women. In addition, the men were far less choosy than women when it comes to the appearance of their sexual partners.

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The study: Led by Dr. Achim Schutzwohl of the department of psychology at the University of Brunel in the United Kingdom, the team asked the participants to imagine being approached by members of the opposite sex who were alternately described as: slightly unattractive, moderately attractive and exceptionally attractive. With the description of the imaginary person's looks in mind, the volunteers were then asked how they would respond if the individual offered to go out on a date with them, asked them to go to their apartment and asked to have sex with them.

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The results:
-- The men were far more likely than the women to agree to have casual sex.
-- Actually, the men were far more agreeable to everything than the women. They were more likely to go on the date, go to the apartment and have sex in all three categories of attractiveness.
-- For the women to even consider casual sex, the man had to be exceptionally attractive.
-- German men were less likely to accept the date, apartment and sex offers than were the Italian and American men.
-- Italian men were more likely than the American men to accept an offer of sex.

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"While men are not entirely insensitive to their requestor's attractiveness, women have higher standards and are more likely to engage in casual sex with an exceptionally attractive man than with a less attractive man," the researchers wrote in the journal Human Nature.

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