April Fool! It turns out they don’t want to have fun after all. A study of womens’ attitudes towards one-night stands presented by Dr Sharron Hinchcliffe of Sheffield University discovers that they regret it. According to Nic Fleming in the Daily Telegraph
Around nine out of 10 of those questioned felt casual sex was immoral and that those women who engaged in it were not doing so primarily for pleasure.
Researcher Dr Hinchcliffe seemed puzzled by the results of her survey.
"It makes me question whether women have really gained all the sexual freedom they are supposed to have gained since the Sixties."
Yep. It takes an academic to say something as stupid as that.
Inspired by the results of the study columnist Mary Wakefield decided to do some research among her friends while out on a “hen weekend” in the country.
"Actually," said one, "I regret nearly all the men I slept with before my husband." Down the line, one by one, came cautious noises of assent.
No doubt the caution issues from the instinctive feeling that they might be seen as betraying their sexual freedom by the likes of Dr Hinchcliffe.
But the ladies all wished “that we'd drunk less and said No more often, but [all agreed] that it would be a crucial error to ever admit this to men.”
Er, the ladies lost me there. Just what is it that they are trying to hide from their men? That they really didn’t like those rolls in the hay? That they want relationships not sex?
Have they ever thought that there might be some men out there that would actually be relieved to know that women really don’t feel that good about the much vaunted sexual revolution?
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