SENSATION SEEKING AND MALES SEXUAL STRATEGY

We examined the relationship between sensation seeking and the self-re ports of both sexual interests and behaviours of 162 heterosexual male students and 60 heterosexual males recruited from the community. Beca use parental investment theory and previous research suggest that male s' interest in sexual partner variety is constrained by females' prefe rence for committed sexual relationships, we predicted that participan ts would desire to have more partners in the future than they have had in the past. Because evolutionary theory and previous research also s uggests that personality dispositions are related to mating strategies , we further predicted that sensation seeking would be positively corr elated with lifetime number of sexual partners, mean number of partner s per sexually active year, shortest time a partner was known before h aving sex, the percentage of previous relationships that were short-te rm, number of partners desired in the next year, and variety of sexual activities participants had experienced or would like to experience, and negatively correlated with age at first intercourse. The predictio ns were supported.