If you've ever felt like the entire world just wanted to have casual, who-gives-a-shit sex even though you were kind of "meh" about the idea, you're not alone.
The Kinsey Institute's Justin Garcia surveyed 500 college students and found that 65 percent of women and 45 percent of men hoped their hookups would lead to a legit relationship, and 51 percent of women and 42 percent of men even brought up that hope to the person they'd hooked up with [via Scientific American].
And that's not the only survey that shows this to be the case. In a 2010 survey, 63 percent of men and 83 percent of women said they'd rather be in a relationship than a friends-with-benefits situation, and in a study from 2008, 51 percent of people said they hooked up with someone because they hoped it would lead to a relationship.
So despite constant media messages saying all college students want to do is hook up, it appears to be more likely that most people actually want — gasp — human connections and intimacy.
Which is the best news hopeless romantics could ask for.
