Sex With A Stranger

A website called whatever.com has posted a video of a hidden camera social experiment in which an attractive young woman asks 100 random men on the street if they would have sex with her. Thirty of the men said yes, and seventy said no. They also ran an experiment with a man asking random women for sex. Zero of 100 women said yes, and two of 200 women said yes.

The outcome of this experiment was laughably predictable. Does it surprise anyone that 100 of 100 women declined to have sex with a stranger? The thing that does surprise me just a little is that, when approached by an attractive female, only 30 of 100 men said yes. I would have expected the numbers to be the reverse, with 70 men saying yes and 30 saying no. But given that the experiment was done in a college town and most of the men were young and probably having sex with girlfriends, seventy no’s are understandable.

What do we conclude from this experiment? One possibility is that 30 out of 100 young men are naive at best, dummies at worst. Think, guys: in your entire life, how many times has a good-looking female you’ve never met – who is not a prostitute – ever approached you on the street and offered sex? I suspect the number of times that has happened to most men is zero. Yet the thought doesn’t appear to occur to any of the men who said yes that maybe something else is happening – that maybe there’s a camera on them, maybe the woman is setting the man up to be robbed by her drug-addicted boyfriend, maybe the woman is being coerced into doing this for some nefarious reason, or that maybe the woman has mental or emotional issues. No, 30 out of 100 young men apparently thought: a hot chick I’ve never met wants me for sex: totally normal!

Another possibility is that these hypothetical explanations did occur to the 30 men and they just didn’t care because they’re all horndogs. (Women can be horndogs, too, but apparently it’s only 2 out of 200.)

These 30 men – are they naive dummies, or just desperate to get laid? Either way, it’s not their finest moment.