New research has suggested that women and men are affected very differently by a one-nighter:

I don’t know too many women who can have ‘sex like a man’, without strings or regrets. To me, it’s not a moral issue, more about protecting yourself. For some women, the intimacy of sleeping with someone can confuse how you really feel about them and I know too many women who have falsely believed they were ‘in love’ when in fact, they just felt vulnerable and needy after having sex with someone they didn’t know very well.

Whenever I talk about this, I often get an angry woman telling me I’m a disgrace for implying that all women want a relationship and that men only want sex. I’m not saying that. There are no hard and fast stereotypes. It’s just more common for women to get emotionally involved after they’ve gotten naked with someone…..

Think about all the people you’ve slept with. How many do you wish you hadn’t? Or wish you’d waited?