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Have you ever wondered why young men are almost always the first to tell a woman: 8220;I love you8221;? This is because males often try to smooth-talk their partners in a blossoming romance into bed,a new study has claimed.
8220;Any strategy serving as the means to a sexual end would be beneficial to men,including declarations of love,8221; the 8216;Daily Mail8217; quoted as saying researchers at Pennsylvania State University who carried out the study.
For their study,the researchers interviewed 171 heterosexual students under 25. A sizeable majority 8212; 87 per cent 8212; said they believed women fell in love first while three-quarters said they felt women to say 8220;I love you8221; first.
But,when asked about their own experiences,men said it took them a few weeks to realise they had fallen in love,compared with a few months for women.
It is probably no coincidence that this coincides with the average timescale when each partner wanted to have sex 8212; within weeks for men and months for women,say the researchers who analysed the survey.
Some 64 per cent of men admitted they had said 8220;I love you8221; first,compared with just 18 per cent of women,revealed the findings.
8220;This shows that women tend to be more cautious about love and the expression thereof than is commonly believed. It can be argued that men8217;s falling in love and exclaiming this love first may be explained as a by-product of men equating love with sexual desire,8221; the researchers concluded.
