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Nascent Drama

It was so nice to be wanted,'" said researcher Anne Campbell, a psychologist at Durham University in England.
 
"What women don't seem to see is that men drop their standards massively for a one-night stand."
 
She added, "No woman should be flattered because a man wants to have sex with her once."
 
While most research on the topic of casual sex has relied on fictitious vignettes or just having participants imagine they had a one-night stand, the new findings are based on self-reports of feelings following an actual hook-up.
 
Campbell says in the June issue of the journal Human Nature that the findings suggest women are not well adapted to promiscuity.
 
Women have much more to lose, while men are in a win-win situation.
 
For the ladies, a baby on the way is a huge responsibility, but a guy can just bail.
 
"The bottom line is the risks are potentially greater for women," said Todd Shackelford, an evolutionary psychologist at Florida Atlantic University who was not involved in the current study.
 
"It's not surprising they indicate the experience is somewhat less positive, but importantly somewhat more negative."
 
However, promiscuity does offer natural advantages for women from an evolutionary perspective, Shackelford said.
 
These advantages could explain why women participate in one-night stands even though they feel so lousy afterward.
 
Flings provide women with the potential to snag the best genes for offspring or they could be spurred by a chemical nudge at the peak of the menstrual cycle.
 
Campbell surveyed more than 3,300 individual, most of whom were between the ages of 17 and 40.
 
Of the heterosexual respondents, more than half reported a one-night stand, about evenly split between men and women.
 
Overall women's morning-after feelings were more negative than men's.
 
While 80 percent of men had overall positive feelings, just 54 percent of women had positive feelings.
 
Women predominantly reported "regret at being used," with additional comments including: "I felt cheap," "horrified afterward," and "I felt degraded. Made myself look cheap and easy. Total regret."
 
Contrary to popular belief, women said they didn't view casual sex as a prelude to a long-term relationship.
 
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