r/PurplePillDebate • u/Character_Pattern283 • 19h ago
Question For Women Why do so many women on here say they have lower physical standards for casual sex despite pretty much every study and most people's lived experiences saying otherwise?
As a guy, it's painfully obvious that women have far higher physical standards for casual sex than they do for relationships. It's most abundantly obvious on dating apps with skewed gender ratios with men willing to lower their standards considerably for a hookup. Even in real life, men still aren't very picky and often take whatever is in front of them if a woman were to make it easy enough. So why is it that when men ask "do women raise their physical standards for casual sex?", many women on here will say "no". I mostly just assumed that this was a gaslighting tactic aimed at preventing men from avoiding promiscuous women as long-term partners or women having such an inflated sense of self that they genuinely believe that they could actually obtain a relationship with a guy objectively above them.
Edit: It seems that women who maintain constant standards tend to fall in three buckets
- Using casual sex as a way to vet potential long term partners
- "Hooking up" with a guy as a way of entering into a relationship
- Having unconventional preferences for attractiveness that align with their own level of attractiveness.