Sexually active women are not judged more harshly than men

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It’s not true that women are subjected to sexual double standards, researchers say. Most people tend to be more liberal than they think other people are. But not all behaviour is OK.
Maybe you too have bought into the idea that men with numerous sexual partners are actually admired, while women with the same are condemned - the so-called sexual double standard. But that turns out to be a myth, according to a new survey.
“We haven’t found that women are subjected to the traditional double standards,” says Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, a professor at NTNU’s Department of Psychology.
On the contrary, men are judged a little more strictly than women when it comes to short-term sexual encounters. But the myth is tenacious, and a lot of people believe it.
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