Does that play into initial attraction, not just a later decision about whether to stay in a relationship?
HF: I don’t think we understand much about female sexuality yet. We way underplay men’s desire for love and women’s desire for just plain sex. Women can have quite a high sex drive. But there’s a lot of data that they’re a lot less interested in the one-night stand, for good Darwinian reasons. IK: I was looking at studies of male and female college students who were having a lot of casual sex; the women ended up being much more ambivalent, much more regretful, much more depressed. HF: I just don’t think that casual sex is very casual. Any kind of sexual activity drives up dopamine in the brain, and that can bring you closer to a threshold of romantic love. I also think both sexes often use casual sex trying to trigger these other brain systems. They may tell you it’s casual sex, but they’re hoping that he likes me or she likes me. You’re talking about all this hormonal response, but how does that relate to someone you meet over an Internet connection? HF: A lot of people think that Int
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