A new University of Iowa study, “The Contexts of Sexual Involvement and Concurrent Sexual Partnerships,” found that compared with those in serious relationships, people hooking up with a stranger or acquaintance and lovers in “friends with benefits” arrangements are much more likely to sleep around simultaneously… “The goal was to establish the basic association between different kinds of sexual relationships and concurrency,” says Anthony Paik, an assistant professor of sociology, whose results were published in the March issue of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.
Most hook-up studies are of adolescents; this is one of the few to examine adults, and they are apparently also rather frisky. According to Dr. Paik’s research, one-third of adult relationships lack exclusivity. While over all, men were more than three times more likely to sleep around, women in “friends with benefits” situations were more likely to have multiple partners.
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