Why do people engage in casual sex? The dispensing with troublesome emotions. An opportunity to experiment with your sexuality. In the study, published in the Journal of Relationships Research , researchers sent a voluntary online questionnaire to several hundred randomly selected college students, asking about their affectionate and intimate activities during sexual encounters in the contexts of both romantic relationships and casual sex hook-ups.
Specifically, participants were asked about acts such as cuddling, spending the night, eye gazing, and foreplay. Students also indicated which of these acts they preferred during casual sex or hook-ups, and which they liked during sex as part of a romantic relationship. The researchers found, as expected, that partners were more likely to engage in affectionate and intimate activities in relationship sex than in casual sex.
But the rate of affection and intimacy in casual encounters was way higher than anticipated. Women were found to be more likely to engage in intimate acts across all scenarios, as hypothesized. But men were into it too -- in particular foreplay and eye gazing. Sean Massey, a co-author of the study and a social psychologist and associate professor at Binghamton, said the team was surprised by some of the results. Massey said he hopes the study will help to eliminate some of the stigmas that surround hook-up culture.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Instagram. Intimate Hook-Ups In the study, published in the Journal of Relationships Research , researchers sent a voluntary online questionnaire to several hundred randomly selected college students, asking about their affectionate and intimate activities during sexual encounters in the contexts of both romantic relationships and casual sex hook-ups.
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