Family Studies 1015A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Casual Sex

• School: Western University
• Department: Family Studies
• Course: Family Studies 1015A/B
• Professor: Bridget Demachi

Document Summary

Most people in the u. s. believe that sex among unmarried people is acceptable as long as it occurs in an affectionate, committed relationship. We use a permissiveness with affection standard and we no longer expect to. Save sex for marriage as our grandparents were supposed to do. There"s more ambivalence about hookups (sexual interaction with nonromantic partners, not involve any expectation of a lasting relationship. ) Both sexes have more positive feeling after hookup and most people prefer dating someone to just hooking up. Women regret thing they"ve done (having hook up), men regret thing they didn"t do, their inactions (not having sex when they had the chance to) Men are more permissive than women, and are more accepting of casual, uncommitted sex without love than women are. Women have been judged more harshly than men for being sexually permissive or experienced. Men have multiple sexual partners are studs", but women with same number of sexual partners will be sluts" .