As a follow-up to The Ultimate Casual Dating Quandary: S e x or Relationship, I'd like to bring some statistics to your attention. A study conducted by J.M. Townsend reached the following results.
When asked "Have you ever continued to have s e x on a regular basis with someone you did not want to get emotionally involved with?", 37% of women answered yes, whereas 76% of men answered yes. The yays were then asked a follow-up question: "if so, did you find it difficult to keep from getting emotionally involved with the person?", to which 22% of women and 74% of men answered no. Cf. David Buss, The Dangerous Passion for more info.
Not enough of you took my survey to make it interesting, but I do find it somewhat interesting that NO men said that they wouldn't have s e x without a committment.Here's a follow-up survey, related both to The Ultimate Casual Dating Quandary: S e x or Relationship and to atypical grrl's (In)fidelity:
If you were in a serious, committed, and monogamous, long-term relationship, which of the following would distress and upset you more:
(a) Discovering that your partner has formed a strong emotional, but non-sexual, relationship with a member of the opposite s e x
(b) Discovering that your partner has begun a sexual, but non-emotional, relationship with a member of the opposite s e x?
(1) I'm a man: Discovering the non-sexual emotional relationship would be more upsetting.
(2) I'm a man: Discovering the non-emotional sexual relationship would be more upsetting.
(3) I'm a woman: Discovering the non-sexual emotional relationship would be more upsetting.
(4) I'm a woman: Discovering the non-emotional sexual relationship would be more upsetting.
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