Posted January 28, One is my friend "Sam," Most of his partners have been one-night stands or short flings. How else do you get to ? He loves casual sex with new people. The other is my colleague "David," Given what you know about Sam and David, who do you think is more interested in having and maintaining a long-term relationship?
They treat interest in short-term mating as the polar opposite of interest in long-term mating, as if everyone who scores high on interest in casual sex scores low on interest in relationships, and vice versa an assumed correlation of The unidimensional model below provides a graphic representation. On the surface, the notion that there is an opposition between these two sexual strategies makes some sense, because time and energy spent engaging in short-term mating e.
If one wants to, the day is long enough to spend some time on both short-term and long-term matingβespecially if spread over the many decades of the human lifespan. So perhaps wanting casual sex does not automatically mean not wanting love and relationships.
In theory, some people could indeed be high on one and low on the other, but others could be high on both a romantic hookup aficionado or low on both an asexual aromantic. Surprisingly little research has attempted to figure out whether interest in casual sex and interest in romantic relationships are negatively correlated, and if so, whether this correlation is strong for example, -.
I could locate only two studies looking into this, one published in in Evolution and Human Behavior, which surveyed students at a Southeastern college, and one published in Evolutionary Psychology in , which surveyed students from a Midwestern university.
