Men: do you get emotionally attached to your sex partners?

Hi. As you can tell, I'm a girl, but since I'm also a big nerd, let me look at this biologically. (Let's just assume that, for this analysis's sake, that every man is heterosexual, even though that's not true).

Men are programmed (as cliched as this sounds) to be hunters. Since they can't get pregnant, their instincts tell them to impregnate everything, which means to have sex. Men today don't necessarily WANT to impregnate everything, but the programming to have sex is still there. They're not supposed to get attached TOO easily, since that will make them less likely to want to sleep with other women. And even when attached, some men will still want to sleep with others.

Women, however, can have one baby per year (excluding when women have multiple babies). They are the ones who get pregnant, and who populate the Earth. To have the human race continue to be strong and healthy, women have to be pickier. That means that we tend to prefer to love people we make babies with. It's all about natural selection.

So, yes, men can separate sex and love pretty easily—at least, a lot easier than most women can. I can't exactly tell you how the feeling of sex with someone you love differs from casual sex, though, because I have no Y chromosome and I'm a 14-year-old virgin.

Don't become a "sex partner". And the answer is yes and no. Typically no for girls wearing massive towels on their heads. I think most of us, either by instinct or painful experience, know to distance ourselves from women who sleep with us too easily because they're usually insecure and that spells crazy. As a man, I can tell you that I feel something for every person, especially those people who are women, whom I come in contact with. And as a man I can tell you that I suppress my emotions to an unhealthy point and never let them control my actions. Ever. That helps to make me both strong and very sad, but to reiterate my earlier point, "don't become anyone's sex partner." If you have a boyfriend, you can have sex with him and expect an emotional attachment. Otherwise, expect that it's just sex.

The only way im emotionally attached to a women if were both of the understanding that we are looking to take it further like a relationship but if its a one night stand or just sex buddies than no theres no emotion its just sex which ive had numerious amount of times. It needs to be clarified though or ill think its just a fling.

He's right. You all are besides two. After alot of women my ex was the first time I had sex with feelings even in a relationship. A intelligent guy knows by the girl what could happen. Alot of guys I know though simply dont care. So I mean it's a 50/50 answer. It depends on one thing an thats relationship status.

I can't help but feel an emotional connection after a physical one. I've never been able to have casual sex because of this, but I find becoming friends with her afterwards to be really easy...even if she has someone else in her life at that point.