Women may be more sexually liberal than in previous times, yet the majority of us consider one night stands to be immoral, research shows.
40 years after women's lib began, British women label friends who have casual sex as 'needy' and 'deviant'.
A survey of women's attitudes in relation to sex shows that women of across the age range consider sex outside marriage or a loving long term relationship as wrong.
These findings by psychologists at Sheffield University are contrary to the image of the liberal, carefree 21st century woman shown in Sex And The City.
46 women between the ages of 20 and 83 were asked their views about sex.
90% consider casual sex to be wrong and just 10% stated that they had has a one night stand.
Women of any age are judgmental when it comes to women they know sleeping around; some younger women even being harsher compared to pensioners.
Women of course also have notorious double standards; some women who have had one night stands stated that it was wrong for other women to do so.
It is not accepted that women may have casual sex for pleasure. Women consider that those who have one night stands do so do to desperation or because they are drunk.
The majority of us still consider that you can only get true fulfilment in a committed, loving relationship.
It would still appear that women cannot get away with the sexual behaviour of their male counterparts. Perhaps the sixties have not really liberated people from their narrow views after all.
