Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. Gender similarities have been detected in various sexual behaviors and attitudes in young adults, but persistent differences remain regarding casual sexual relationships CSRs , with women feeling different external pressures than men.
The thematic analysis led us to the interpretation that there is an ongoing change in the acceptability of these relationships, leading to the emergence of a single sexual standard β mostly liberal, but at times also conservative.
However, different expectations remain, derived from a deep-rooted traditional sexual double standard still perceived in society.
Challenges to the unequal standards and social constraints in CSRs is desired by many women, defended by men, and admired in those women whose striving contributes to the normalization of this conduct and of how it is evaluated.
Casual sex may be defined as involving various forms of sexual behavior, without there being mutual expectations of romantic involvement or that the relationship will be ongoing, with the duration and degree of knowledge between individuals being highly variable Alvarez et al.
