18% of Chinese college students want partner for sex needs

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18% of Chinese college students want partner for sex needs

(Global Times) 08:51, November 21, 2013

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Roughly 18 percent of college students admitted to having boyfriends or girlfriends primarily to take care of their sexual and emotional needs, while another 40 percent suspected that they would break up with their partners after graduation, according to a new survey of college students released Saturday by a Chinese matchmaking website.

The popular website, jiayuan.com, based their study on 1,467 responses from a pool of registered college students nationwide, to better examine what college students are really looking for in a relationship.

The survey found that the remaining some 35 percent of college participants were in fact looking for true love, while the other less than 4 percent said they wanted to find a marriage partner.

Gan Mantang, a professor of sociology at Fuzhou University, was quoted by Dongnan Express as saying that it was hard to determine whether the study gives an accurate snapshot of college students' attitudes toward relationships due to the small sample used to draw conclusions.

But he said that as young adults, it is natural for students to want partners primarily for the purpose of having someone to tend to their sexual and emotional needs.

（Editor：GaoYinan、Chen Lidan）