According to a new study released in LiveScience:
Men with long-term partners are more likely to be satisfied with their relationships if they’re getting lots of hugs, cuddles and other signs of physical affection, a new study finds.
The research, to be published in August in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, also found that men are more likely to say they’re happy in their relationships, while women are more likely to say that they’re sexually satisfied.
Those findings were opposite of what the researchers expected, said study author Julia Heiman, a psychologist and the director of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University.
Take that, stereotypes. You’ve just received a round-house kick to the face with SCIENCE!
EVERYONE needs affection. I wonder how much mental illness could be prevented or cured with hug therapy.
Probably a lot. I’d probably be in much better shape emotionally if I had received affection instead of neglect as a child. It’s pretty sad that I can count on my fingers the number of times I have received affection in the past decade. I’m the oldest and most bitter 20-something in the world.
I wouldn’t say more than us. They need just as much as us. Some men just don’t dare asking for it as loud as we do, because they’ve been taught its unmanly…
But we all need some little signs of affection in our daily “business”. A smile, a touch of the hair, like Neen said… But for that, we first need to learn to be grateful for what we have and appreciate it fully. And stop looking around for the even better, higher, faster etc…
In that, men and women have to learn a lot, no?!
This is true in my household. My partner loves his cuddles and snuggles and his dinner on time. Loves his man cave time but simply walking past and a quick kiss or touch of the hair leaves a smile on his dial.