https://phys.org/news/2020-09-majority-women-sext-dating-apps.html

Over half of all women (57.7 percent) reported having received or sent sexting messages, and this was consistent across all geographic areas. Researchers were surprised to learn that women in countries with higher gender inequality reported being more than four times more likely to report sexting than women in more egalitarian regions.

The study also found that women in places with greater gender inequality were twice as likely to report that they've used apps to improve their sexual relationships, whereas women from places with lower inequality were more likely to report that they've used apps to learn about sexual relationships.

Globally, women reported that the most common kinds of partners they sought were short-term partners (9 percent), chatting and/or sexting partners (8.7 percent) or long-term partners (8.6 percent). The exception was women in East Africa, who reported seeking "friends with benefits" (8.1 percent) and long-term partners (4.1 percent) most commonly

Wanted to discuss this study that came out recently. I always found dating apps to be pretty good for sexting. What I found most interesting was that the percent of women on apps seeking short-term and sexting partners is greater than the percent of women seeking long-term partners.

This relatively large minority of women, I think, are the reason men send explicit sexual messages early in the conversation. It instantly weeds out the women who are not interested in those desires. Granted this makes the other women who are using the dating app seethe but isn't that the price of freedom? People will attempt to sell you things you may not want in an economy that is free.

We often discuss here that women seek LTR's over STR's. While that may still be true and I believe it to be so, this study shows that with regards to dating apps, the percent of women seeking STR's are actually greater than those seeking LTR's. Food for thought.

General discussion on the article and findings.