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Study finds East Europeans are shallow sluts

Started by jimmy olsen, August 21, 2011, 09:13:48 PM

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jimmy olsen

Somehow I'm not surprised.  :hmm:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44220736/ns/health-behavior/
QuoteAmericans fall in love slower than Europeans, study finds

Also, those in U.S. say friendship is key aspect, while Eastern Europeans don't feel that way

By Remy Melina, LiveScience Staff Writer
updated 8/21/2011 3:38:46 PM ET 2011-08-21T19:38:46

Americans take longer to fall in love than their Eastern European counterparts, according to a new study. The findings also showed that Americans frequently cited friendship as a key part of romantic love, while Russians and Lithuanians rarely mentioned it.

The study found that about 90 percent of Lithuanians reported falling in love within a month of meeting one another, with 39 percent falling in love within a matter of days. By comparison, 58 percent of American participants indicated they fell in love within two months to a year.

To see how different cultures view and practice romantic love, the researchers surveyed 1,157 adults from the United States, Russia and Lithuania. Participants were given a 14-item questionnaire meant to gauge how they perceived romantic love, and also asked to write a freelist answering the question, "What do you associate with romantic love?" Group interviews were also conducted.

The list responses showed that most of the Eastern European participants viewed romantic love as fleeting, but this was not the case for Americans. [See top 10 lists from all three cultures ]


"The idea that romantic love was temporary and inconsequential was frequently cited by Lithuanian and Russian informants, but not by U.S. informants," the researchers write in the journal Cross-Cultural Research. The Eastern Europe participants also referred to romantic love as "a stage," "unreal" and a "fairytale."

Furthermore, while Americans frequently cited "friendship" and "comfort/love" as requirements for romantic love, other participants either seldom or never mentioned these requirements. In fact, the word "friendship" is absent from the more than 500 terms elicited from the Eastern European samples.

"Friendship speaks of a real and substantive relationship; friends are not temporary," the researchers write. "Thus it seems to reason that with friendship come other qualities that are missing or infrequently cited in the Eastern European sample, but are frequently cited in the U.S. sample  — 'honesty,' 'content' and 'comfort.'"

There were some similarities among the American, Russian and Lithuanian responses. All three groups rated "being together," "sexual passion" and "a state of emotional arousal-happiness/joy" as features of romantic love. "Equality" and "sex" were also two main features mentioned by the groups.

The study was carried out by scientists at the State University of New York at New Paltz and Russia's Moscow State University for the Humanities.

You can follow LiveScience writer Remy Melina on Twitter@remymelina.


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Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Razgovory

Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 21, 2011, 09:16:12 PM
Czechs and Slovaks make fantastic porn.

Indeed.  I need to learn one of them Slavik languages and pick up some of the hungry cuties.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Josquius

Lithuanians I`ve met have tended towards being rather meh actually.
Estonians on the other hand...:perv:
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Barrister

Yet another reason to love Eastern Europeans. :perv:
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Razgovory

Quote from: Tyr on August 21, 2011, 09:42:37 PM
Lithuanians I`ve met have tended towards being rather meh actually.
Estonians on the other hand...:perv:

Estonians are like Finns right?  Pass.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

PRC

Quote from: Razgovory on August 21, 2011, 11:33:25 PM
Quote from: Tyr on August 21, 2011, 09:42:37 PM
Lithuanians I`ve met have tended towards being rather meh actually.
Estonians on the other hand...:perv:

Estonians are like Finns right?  Pass.

How many Finns have you met? 

Slargos


Martinus

WTF with the thread title, from the cancer tard?

jimmy olsen

It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Eddie Teach

Because if you fall in "love" with every hairy-dicked Tom that comes your way, that makes you a slut.  :hmm:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

jimmy olsen

 :hmm:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2027947/Americans-far-longer-fall-love-Eastern-Europeans.html#ixzz1VjpW9WoQ

QuoteAnother possible explanation for the difference is that those from Eastern Europe have different standards.

As one 27-year-old Lithuanian woman told the researchers: 'For me a man should be a little bit more handsome than a monkey, but not much.

'But first of all I am fascinated by a man's masculinity.'

It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
--------------------------------------------
1 Karma Chameleon point

garbon

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 22, 2011, 01:42:03 AM
Because if you fall in "love" with every hairy-dicked Tom that comes your way, that makes you a slut.  :hmm:

Actually, isn't that the opposite? I mean if you really believe you have fallen in love with each person - isn't that less slutty than the person who keeps sleeping with different people without being in love?
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Razgovory

Quote from: Slargos on August 22, 2011, 01:01:32 AM
raz is a deeply racist individual.

I'm not sure why you think I would care what you think or say.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017