According to an Ifop study published on Tuesday, nearly 40% of French people, mostly men, registered on a dating site are only looking for a one-night stand.
Cupid and his arrow will undoubtedly crash into a wall reading this, but the reality is there: people registered on dating sites are looking more and more for “no tomorrow” stories. In any case, this is what reveals an Ifop study on behalf of the webcam show site CAM4, published on Tuesday.
Gone is the love that lasts forever, today the French no longer want rose water stories. Tinder, Adopte Un Mec, Happn, Meetic, so many dating sites on which 2 out of 5 French people have already registered to find one night stands.
New places to meet
Between 2012 and 2015, the proportion of users of these sites admitting to looking for only “one-stop-shop” fell from 22% to 38%. Of these, half of those registered are men, compared to 11% women. According to the results of the study, these results “confirm the fairly widespread (…) idea” that “these new dating areas are more conducive to recruiting occasional partners than to forming couple relationships”.
In fact, a quarter of those registered has already had sex thanks to a dating site. For François Kraus, director of studies at Ifop, “dating sites participate, more than any other mode of meeting, in the emergence of a” hookup culture “in which sexuality is totally dissociated from conjugality” . In an interview with AFP, he noted, “that there is a real underlying trend: changes like that, in the space of three years, we don’t often see them”.
Virtual sexual practices
New technologies (Smartphone, tablet) but also mobile applications promote the development of virtual sexual practices, such as “sexting” which consists in exchanging naked photos or exchanges of a sexual nature via a webcam. Sex without a future and virtual sex “participate in the same movement of reducing sexuality to an activity in which there is no emotional commitment, to a kind of masturbation with the body of the other”, analyzes Francois Kraus.
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