Hmmm, very interesting, but isn’t it also likely that certain personality types are less likely to use a condom, and that those same personality types might be likely to determine self worth based on sexual encounters?

I’m not saying in any way that that is the case, I’m just saying that with retrospective studies it’s hard to make claims for the effects of a substance, even one as awesome as semen.

~Rhaco

This explains those old detergent commercials where the tube socks danced their way into the wash.

~Rhaco

Of course they weren´t depresive; they were just risk junkies.

Depressives are more realistic, part n.

Shhh people above, study says have more sex! Let’s just run with that =P

There is, of course, a much simpler explanation. Who likes condoms? Probably almost no-one. So anyone having sex without a condom is going to feel better — it’s a better experience, something not to have to worry about, and a fairly yeuchy contraption not to have to use. GOK how you control for that though.

I believe they should have controlled for whether the girls in question were in a monogamous relationship. Usually, only a girl in a long term, stable relationship will risk unprotected sex (in college anyway – teens are much stupider.) This could be the reason she isn’t showing as many depressed symptoms, compared to her single swinger counterparts. The study should have also controlled for whether a girl is on birth control, which is the other major reason she might not be using a condom.

This is definitely an advantage of a monogamous heterosexual marriage versus the other forms of sexual relationships.