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Sex with friends common among college-goers
Almost 60 per cent of American college students have been in a 'no commitment' and 'no romance' sexual relationship with a friend, reveals a study.
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Conductedby researchers at Wayne State University and Michigan State University, thestudy showed that the possibility for romantic feelings and a lack ofcommunication, could complicate such anarrangement.
The study focusedon why college students had such relationships at all. The researchers asked 125undergraduates why they would or wouldn't have sex with a friend, and what theadvantages or disadvantages would be. It was found that two-thirds ofparticipants had been in a "friends with benefits" relationship, and 36 per centsaid that they were in one.
The results indicated that themain advantage of such a relationship was "no commitment" (reported by 59.7 percent of participants), which was followed closely by "have sex" (55.6 per cent).Over 50 per cent of those who had had sex with a friend said they had engaged inall forms of sex. Around 22.7 per cent said that they had intercourse only,while 8 per cent said that they did everything but haveintercourse.
"(Therelationships) were perceived as providing a relatively safe and convenientenvironment for recreational sex," Live Science quoted Melissa A. Bisson andTimothy R. Levine, the study���s lead researchers, as saying. However, thebiggest disadvantage of this recreational sex was the possibility that feelingswould develop (65.3 per cent).
Other worries included "harmfriendship" (28.2 per cent) and "cause negative emotions" (27.4 per cent).However, concern over pregnancy and STDs, listed as "negative consequences ofsex", came in at only 9.7 percent.
Levine said that thefindings hardly indicated that people had evolved to the point where "friendswith benefits" relationships would replace traditional romantic couplings."Romantic relationships have always been around," he said.
Recreational sex "reallyrequires either effective birth control or women to be economically independentor both to be viable, and both are relatively recent in human evolution."
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