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Study: Men will sleep with pretty much anyone
August 12, 2009 by Josh
From the folks who brought us great stories like “Cupcakes are still totes popular, delicious” and “Buy jorts; they’re so cool” we got more breaking news today. According to the LA Times (and some study), women have higher standards than men when it comes to sexytime. SHOCKING!

Today’s headline comes from the Times’ blog, Booster Shots, which promises “Oddities, musings and some news from the world of health.” Unfortunately, today’s selection is neither odd, nor news: “Women take very attractive strangers to bed; men aren’t so picky”

All that’s missing is the subhead, which we will provide: “Duh”

In a never-ending quest to plumb the mysteries of men, women and sex, the journal Human Nature has published a study that minces no words in concluding that women “have higher standards” when engaging in a one-night stand.

That’s right, someone actually paid to conduct this study. That happened. Again, is anything about this news? Have these researchers never been in a bar at last call? Christ.

Let’s go to the “science.”

So here’s how they play out in the latest study. A total of 427 men and 433 females from universities in the United States, Germany and Italy were asked to imagine their response to a request by a member of the opposite sex to: a) go out on a date; b) go home with the requestor; and c) go to bed with him or her.

The person making the invitation could be “moderately unattractive,” “somewhat attractive” or “exceptionally attractive,” and the research participant was asked for his or her answer under each of these permutations.

Here are the not-surprising-at-all findings:

Across the board, men were more likely to accept any and all of the invitations than were women. There were a few national differences among the men: the German men were most reticent about going out or going home with any of the imagined women, and Italians were least discriminate about doing anything with anyone. American men were more likely than their German counterparts to go to bed with a woman. But they weren’t quite as randy as the Italians.

Whoa, slow down there, Bill Nye! Let’s make sure we’re following you before we go any further. The Germans are less interested in sex than the Italians!? WTF!

Seriously, this is an actual posting at LATimes.com, and there is literally zero news in it. Least newsy: this next sentence…

As a group, the men also showed a preference for a somewhat or exceedingly attractive woman over a moderately unappealing one.

That’s right, the men preferred attractive and somewhat attractive women to “moderately unappealing” ones. GASP!

Also not surprising, the next sentences:

But as long as a woman was at least somewhat attractive, then men were equally ready to go off with her. Extraordinary beauty was not required to secure their willingness to go out, go home or go to bed with a woman extending the invitation.

In other words (and check this out, because we’re about to tie it all back to the picture from the very top!), guys are pretty much just as cool with taking home before-picture Jessica Simpson as after-picture Jessica Simpson.

Next week on Booster Shots: College students who regularly binge drink perform worse on cognitive tests than those who don’t!

Oh wait, they already did that story, too.