University students, who engage in casual sex - having intercourse with someone whom you have known for less than a week -suffer from higher levels of general anxiety, social anxiety and depression, researchers have claimed.
3,900 straight students in the age group of 18 and 25 from 30 different US colleges were questioned about their sex lives and mental well-being.
The researchers found that people who recently engaged in casual sex seemed to have low levels of self-esteem, happiness and life-satisfaction than others who didn't hook-up with a relative stranger in last 1 month, the New York Daily News reported.
Lead author Melina Bersamin of California State University, Sacramento said in a statement that it's premature to say that casual sexual poses no harmful psychological risks for young adults.
She added that the results study suggested that casual sex was negatively associated with well-being and positively linked to psychological distress.
The study has been published in The Journal of Sex Research.
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Maybe this isn't the case with the 'gayer' sex? I see that they were excluded from the casual sex study and why is that? Did the researchers feel that their data might skew the intended results? And what did the researchers intend or think they would find? That should be listed at the beginning of every report, for that would give us reading it a better idea of the parameters this study entails... there's a word for that, but I can't think of it, perhaps too much anxiety and depression? Or a lack thereof? Inquiring minds want to know, but they don't seem to have been part of this study, as subjects or researchers. Limits, that's all we ever find, perhaps that is the cause of this anxiety and depression and perhaps casual sex is meaningless to some with no effects, but meaningful to others (for better or worse), but with effects that only amplify the emotional state already present?
Oh well, it seems this study could have been interesting if not for the early jump at the gate.