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April 05, 2006
Casual Sex is a Turn Off for "Modern Women"
According to a study from Dr. Sharron Hinchliff of the University of Sheffield (and reported on here) , women are turned off by casual sex:
“They argued that women who have casual sex or one-night stands do it not because they are sexually liberalised, but because they have ‘lost control’ on alcohol or drugs or because there is ‘something lacking’ in their lives. They pitied these women and they saw it as deviant behaviour,” Dr Hinchliff said.
This has the potential for interesting design applications for makers of MMOEGs and others who hope to facilitate the emergent sex in their MMOs. Whether or not these findings hold true in virtual worlds is another matter, but it could suggest the need for systems that take MMOEGs to another level where relationship development can - and is encouraged - to occur.
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