Skip navigation! Story from Sex. These are just a few of the sometimes-disparate ideas that come into play when we talk about one-night stands. Because the truth is, this is an experience that a lot of women share, but experience entirely differently. It's personal. Even when it's not. Some women swear it's the purest type of sexual encounter most famously, Erica Jong. Others find themselves feeling deflated afterward , whether or not they had level-set expectations beforehand. And others still see it as just one half of the coin of sexual experience — where physical, carnal pleasure and emotional intimacy can't co-exist.

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Watch now. Matt spends the night with a girl in an elevator during power outage in a girls' college dorm. He never sees her. Waking up in the morning, panties are all that's left of her. How does he find her in a building with girls? Follows the relationships between a gay man and his girlfriend, a suffering married couple, three roommates, a pair of reunited ex-lovers and a grandfather who decides to celebrate his birthday in the company of an attractive young woman. A group of nerdy college guys who can't seem to connect with girls their own age discover the excitement of hooking up with sexy older women. Eugene believes in no sex before marriage. So DID his girlfriend, Cindi. His BFF loves sex.
First night I'm out, I see the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen in my life. And no one's paying attention to her so I introduce myself. We do the usual dance of 'am I just complimenting you because we're both girls or is this gay? She doesn't even finish her [cigarette] before dragging me off to her room. I spent the night between her legs and it was glorious, electric. Unlike anything I'd experienced before. I could have died there and been happy. The next morning we had breakfast and I wrote down my number for her, and she promised she'd ring me.