Women regret one night stands more than men, says depressing new research

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Women regret one night stands more than men, says depressing new research

Maybe we’re just getting with people who are bad in bed though idk

One night stands are not groundbreaking, most of us have had one, or know someone who has. The old, archaic idea of women being tricked into them by men or that they should feel ashamed of them is bit by bit being stripped away, but not soon enough.

And research like this, from Durham University, doesn’t help that. Professor Anne Campbell led the study which claims women feel regretful and “used” the morning after a ONS, and worry about the damage to their reputation, while men are more likely to brag to their friends about it.

In what sounds like a cringeworthy didactic 60s fable, the research goes on to explain how women only risk having sex on a first date if they believe it could lead to a long-term relationship, and often felt as though they’d let themselves down if this wasn’t the case.

But when you get to the numbers, things aren’t so clear. While 58 per cent of the women polled – out of 1,743 people – said that they wouldn’t want to repeat their one night stand (maybe the sex was shit?), 54 per cent still said they enjoyed the experience. Admittedly, the number is much higher for men; 80 per cent of those surveyed said they felt happy about it.

Across the board the general trend was that men’s greatest regret was choosing “an unattractive partner”, whereas women’s, evidently, is choosing a partner who’s fucking shit in bed. One respondent to the online survey said: “The expectation was better than the reality, the sex was rubbish.”

Talking about the survey Professor Campbell said: “In evolutionary terms women bear the brunt of parental care and it has been generally thought that it was to their advantage to choose their mate carefully and remain faithful to make sure that their mate had no reason to believe he was raising another man’s child.

“But recently biologists have suggested that females could benefit from mating with many men  –  it would increase the genetic diversity of their children and, if a high- quality man would not stay with them for ever, they might at least get his excellent genes for their child.”

“What the woman seemed to object to was not the briefness of the encounter but the fact that the man did not seem to appreciate her.”

Romantic. Basically, we prefer quality to quantity. Stop the presses.

 

@rosielanners