Guys, do you get emotionally attached after sex?

Is it true that guys really don't get attached after sex? I know that one nighters really are detached and everything. But if you're seeing a girl that you like, does having sex with her make it all that much more real for you? Do you develop stronger feelings after going physical with her?
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  • By the way you phrased your question, I'm not sure if you understand how it works for guys, vs. girls.

    For the most part, guys tend to fall for girls right away or not at all. If a guy falls for a girl, then he has feelings for her, and so, yes, sex can intensify those feelings. But guys can be sexually attracted to girls that they have no real interest in beyond "just sex", and they can HAVE sex with those girls and not develop feelings for them.

    For (the majority of) guys, sex doesn't create feelings, it only intensifies the feelings that are already there. If there were no feelings to begin with, then nothing gets intensified. Guys who would disagree with this statement probably don't realize, or don't want to admit, that the girls they've been with were girls they already had feelings for before they had sex. Other guys, who knowingly have had FWB relationships in the past will confirm what I'm saying.

    The same guy can like one girl, have sex with her, and his feelings for her can grow. He can have sex with another girl he likes "as a friend" but has no emotions for, and sex with her won't cause any emotions to develop. It's not that some guys have feelings and other guys never do; most guys have both types of situations in their lives. Sometimes they'll have emotions, and sometimes not, but the sexual attraction is there either way (if he finds her attractive).

    With girls, it's different. A girl can get with a guy and really have no feelings for him, but after having sex with him, her brain releases oxytocin, and she'll bond with him, and start developing feelings for him. That's a natural biological response that females have and men don't.

    • Thank you for breaking it down for me! That seems to make sense. I always like your answers :)

    • You are welcome, and thanks for BA.

    • This may be how you are, but they way you described women is 20,000% untrue. Women have to already have feeling for a guy in order for sex to make them feel attached. How would you even know since you're not a woman so just speak for yourself.

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  • Of course. But again there is so many factors that go in that. Let's do this right. If I truly like a girl and a girl truly likes me of course it makes sex much MUCH better and funner in short and long term. But if a guy or a girl just want to have sex with no feelings attached ( they already kind of decided to skip that part ) in that case of course sex would be emotionally unpleasant especially if you already know that nothing is going to happen at the end of the day. Right guy right girl awesome sex, right guy wrong girl or vice verso not so great and the rest is just bad and wrong.

Most Helpful Girls

  • i'm going to go with not really considering how many sitations of FWb we see where the guy doesn't want to make it a relationship and the girl does.

  • Well it’s not like every girl develops feelings after sex either just saying. Most don’t.

  • Im asexual so i have no clue how it works for either men or women.

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  • I believe in sex after marriage. I would get emotionally attached regardless of sex. People should love each other emotionally, not just physically, in a healthy relationship.

  • It depends upon the individual. Some guys just want to blow off their load.

    Other want to get closer to the person through sex so they get emotionally attached.

    If it's someone I like, it would develop stronger feelings.

  • Not in the way you're thinking.

    Having sex does make us feel desired and wanted though. That won't make us fall in love but is important for us to stay in love.

  • I decide before sex my level of emotionally attachment. I've had sex twice outside a relationship and had decided that the sex would be purely physical prior to hooking up. Otherwise I've only had sex with girlfriends who I obviously had emotional attachments to prior to the act

  • Nope.

    • mindless heartless military man. figures.

    • when the government tells the military in the future to take out civilians they will believe them like mindless robots. link

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    • Whoa, I just don't want attachment. What's the deal with that? I don't have time to put myself in an emotional relationship and I'm still getting over a past relationship. It's not like I'm going around banging random women either. If I do have sex with a girl I make it clear before that I'm not looking for emotional attachment and it's her decision to go through with it or not. Second, hell no I will not fire on civilians. I will not follow unlawful orders against my own people.

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  • Yes, its natural

  • Yes.

  • Depends on how good the sex is.

  • wait does this mean that I'm supposed to?

    • Lesbians have detached sex? :). I thought it was all about the intimacy and kissing and blah blah blah :)

    • glad to see I represent every lesbian in the whole world haha

  • No just be clear

  • I am emotionally attached before

  • i try to, but, i just can't do it. i need love to have sex, not sex, to love

  • Yes, we do.

  • kinda. not really in the same way girls do

    • What would yo say the difference is and in which way do you think women get attached as opposed to men.