Why one-night stands don’t work for women

Published May 2, 2019 6:55pm ET



Does the culture have the same influence on women’s sex lives as it does on their dating lives?

That was the question posed to me in an email by a woman who had read an article of mine on the importance of being a “satisficer,” or not comparing one’s relationship to other people’s relationships, which is difficult to do in a social media culture where other people’s lives are a constant presence. She wanted to alert me to a new study entitled “Navigating One-Night Stands” that asked 990 women and men who had a one-night stand in the past year how often they had them, who they had them with, and what concerns they had about them.

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