Teasing with Sex, Hunting for a Relationship: What a Popular Adult Dating/Sex Site Can Tell Us About 21st Century USA Female Sexual Behavior

The ubiquitousness of sex sites posts a potential challenge to evolutionary theory of human sexuality and its consistent and replicable documentation of sex differences in male and female erotic perception, imagination, and behavior. Our study looked at a popular website used by individuals interested in engaging in a casual sexual encounter to determine if there is a convergence in male and female motivation to enter into an anonymous sexual encounter. In effect, we want to determine if females who advertise on the sexual site motives resemble males. To this end, our study analyzed 1508 profiles (754 males, 754 females) on the sexual encounters site and determined the type of sexual encounter sought. Results revealed that females report seeking a long-term relationship (31.9%) more than males (9.7%), while males list seeking more casual sex (51.7%) than females (26.2%). Our analyses found that of the women seeking casual sex with a variety of partners, 53.9 % are either bisexual or bicurious. Females ’ motivation for seeking casual sex ranged from a desire to be validated as being sexually desirable (i.e., rebound sex), seeking a bisexual experience, and having a heighten sex drive). Or study also examined men’s motivations as well as examining the relationship between a man’s age and desired type of sexual encounter preferred (i.e., long term or casual). We found that has men aged there was a heighten interest in establishing long term relationship over casual sexual encounters