hey… that’s immoral

At the end of the article on young Indian women hooking up, there was mention of a new study which found that 9 out of 10 women believe that casual sex was immoral. The research was done by Dr. Sharron Hinchcliff, who found that only 10% of the 46 women that she interviewed in-depth believed that sex with no strings attached was acceptable.

It’s a very interesting idea for an experiment, but it seems that her sample size is much too small and the ages of the women she interviewed ranged from 23 to 83, making it more biased towards older women who were less likely to approve of casual sex. Nonetheless, Dr. Hinchcliff seems prepared to question whether “women have really gained the sexual freedom that they have enjoyed since the 1960s.”

But what I do find interesting about this article is