Go to night spots ; clubs, restaurants, strip clubs, brothels, discos and any other infrastructural edifice that operates nocturnally while entertaining revellers, and you cannot miss a couple of lovers or two in a moment of ‘connubial holiness’.
In colleges and universities, one-night-stands are quite common.
Events and shows organised at compounds of these institutions of higher learning can never miss a morning décor of condoms and sanitary pads littered at every crevice in the corridors.
Well, a new survey – the largest study of its kind involving 3,900 heterosexual students – 11 per cent who said they had engaged in casual sex in the past month – suggests that premarital sex offers momentary satisfaction and afterwards has the potential of sinking a young person into a mental abyss.
The experts involved found that young people who have casual sex are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety.
Higher levels of anxiety and depression among students who had recently had sex with someone they knew for less than a week were exhibited strongly by subjects.
Lead author of the study, Dr Melina Bersamin, from California State University, told Daily Mail that for both men and women in this group, stress, anxiety and depression were experienced as a result of their sexual encounters.
Entitled Risky Business: Is There an Association between Casual Sex and Mental Health among Emerging Adults?, the study surveyed college students from more than 30 institutions across the United States about their casual sex behaviours and mental wellbeing.
In the study, published in The Journal of Sex Research, the researchers also investigated the role of gender in determining mental distress linked to casual sex.
However, gender did not have an effect on outcomes; evidence provided only adduced to the mental turmoil that beleaguer those who love engaging in casual sex.
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