First
there was mystery. Why do women want to cuddle and men want to hit the road
(after sex), then there was brain scanning and evolutionary psychology, and the
mystery was no more.
According to a groundbreaking study from the
Journal of Sex Research, it would seem that when it comes to post-coital
behaviors, men and women could well belong to different planets.
The study begins by presenting the
evolutionary perspective of sexual behaviors that we are all more or less
familiar with — males have more reproductive power than females, hence, it is
an instinctive thing for the preservation of the species that they should
frequently seek multiple partners, instead of long-term relationships.
The study becomes much more interesting when
scientists start asking men and women, including college girls and boys, who
willingly enter into the short-term sexual relationship/one-night-stand arena
on a regular basis, how they behave after sex.
According to the results, even girls who are
having a one-night-stand want to cuddle and kiss and become anxious about what
their male partner is thinking of them, or whether they still find them
attractive. On the other hand, the interviewed men largely declared that they
usually wanted to eat, urinate or sleep after sex.
Overall, our study demonstrated that
post-coital behaviors related to pair-bonding after sex seem to be initiated
and preferred by females far more so than by males, and this was the case for
not only long-term, but also for short-term, mating.
Interestingly enough, men were found to
initiate kissing primarily before sex, while it was mostly women who were
responsible for it after sex. The conclusion seems to be that men would be
using kissing as a road to sex, while women would be using it as a an emotional
display with bonding purposes.
Even when these patterns are obviously not
exclusive and genre differences are nowhere near clear-cut in this area,
according to the study’s findings, women will bond, while men will satisfy
their immediate sexual and non-sexual needs. It would seem that not all of
women´s liberation can change what is written in our genetic codes.
Veronica Pamoukaghlian, MA
References
Hughes SM, & Kruger DJ (2011). Sex
differences in post-coital behaviors in long- and short-term mating: an
evolutionary perspective. Journal of sex research, 48 (5), 496-505 PMID:
20799133
Campbell, A. (2008). The Morning after the
Night Before Human Nature, 19 (2), 157-173 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-008-9036-2
HASELTONU, M., & BUSS, D. (2001). The
affective shift hypothesis: The functions of emotional changes following sexual
intercourse Personal Relationships, 8 (4), 357-369 DOI:
10.1111/j.1475-6811.2001.tb00045.x
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