When seeking casual encounters, women judge promiscuous men more harshly than men judge promiscuous women, according to new research from Norway. The findings, published in Evolutionary Psychology, provide evidence for a "reversed double standard" favoring women in short-term mating contexts. But the study failed to find a similar double standard (against women or against men) in long-term mating contexts. .
Research has found that men hold more positive attitudes towards their female ex-partners than women do towards their male ex-partners. This has been revea