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Why do women still get judged so harshly for having casual sex?

  • Written by Jaimie Arona Krems, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Oklahoma State University
Why do women still get judged so harshly for having casual sex?There's virtually no association between self-esteem and sexual behavior.Heritage Images/Hulton Fine Art Collection via Getty Images

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously called the Roaring Twenties – which happened on the heels of the 1918 flu pandemic – “the most expensive orgy in history.”

Now, as more and more Americans are...

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