Lust? Love? Status?: Young Adults' Motives for Engaging in Casual Sex

摘要: Abstract Although an impressive body of knowledge exists about the attitudes toward and correlates short-term sex, little is known men's women's motives for seeking casual sex partners engaging in sexual encounters. Men women college students who had entered liaisons were asked to describe reasons or that prompted their behavior a free response, essay format. As expected, men generated similar reasons. Specifically, both genders emphasized intraindividual factors (e.g., desire, experimentation, physical pleasure, alcohol use) associated with partner attractiveness) as encounter(s). In addition, however, number gender differences found. more than social environmental status enhancement, normative peer group behavior), whereas cited interpersonal increase probability long-...