About this episode
Everyone knows about the “3 date rule”, but is it always worth the wait? We find out why you’re holding off sex or diving right in, if there’s a magic number of dates before getting intimate and whether having sex too soon can stop a relationship in it’s tracks.
SHOW NOTES:
YouGov Survey on how long you should wait before having sex:
Studies on first-date sex impacting relationships:
https://www.datingadvice.com/studies/fdshlt
https://www.mamamia.com.au/sex-on-first-date/
Differing relationship outcomes when sex happens before, on, or after first dates
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23121225/
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