Skip navigation! Story from Sex. Dating apps have a reputation for being hotbeds of casual sex that you can access with a mere swipe and the exchange of a few usually terrible one-liners. In fact, dating-app users aren't having more sex than the rest of the single population, according to a new study β they're just more interested in sex outside of a committed relationship.
In academic parlance, their "sociosexual orientation" is more open to the possibility of short-term sexual relationships, but they're not actually doing the deed more than other singletons. For the study, published in the online journal Personality and Individual Differences , researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology quizzed students aged about their sex lives and use of picture-based dating apps. Among participants, both the men and women who had used dating apps like Tinder and Bumble reported being less restricted in their sociosexuality than those who had never used them, reported EurekAlert.
Considering the outdated but still commonly held assumption that women are less open to the possibility of short-term flings than men, it's an interesting finding. This will no doubt come as a relief to anyone terrified at the prospect of "putting themselves out there" online to revive an ailing sex life. However, the study does suggest there are differences between the way women and men use dating apps. Women devote more time to them because they're more discriminating and take longer to consider each candidate, while men are more "efficient", swiping and making decisions more quickly and being more likely to contact matches.
If you've ever sat and watched a man swipe right on every candidate in a bid to "maximise his chances", a dismally common dating-app strategy these days, this won't surprise you in the slightest. Men are more eager. This has clear evolutionary reasons. Women have more to lose by engaging with low-quality sexual partners than men do. Men and women also use dating apps for different reasons, according to the study. While both genders reported using Tinder when they were bored and had nothing else to do, women were more likely to say they used apps for confirmation that they were attractive, while men placed greater importance on casual sex.
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