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" Not all one-night stands have to turn into the urban legend of the one that turned into a relationship. In the rain. Always in the rain. One-night stands tend to be a hot-button issue among women, including you, dear Smitten readers, so it&amp;#x27;s interesting to hear how different women have reacted to the experience. Refinery29 rounded up seven women to tell their stories. Editor Neha Gandhi says, &amp;quot;Some women swear it&amp;#x27;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 &amp;amp;#8212; where physical, carnal pleasure, and emotional intimacy can&amp;#x27;t coexist. &amp;quot; And you know what? That&amp;#x27;s OK. We all don&amp;#x27;t have to feel the same way about one-night encounters, as long as we respect one another&amp;#x27;s decisions. A few snippets of how women ultimately reacted to their one-night stands that I found interesting: From author Tracy Bloom, who had a one-night stand as an adult with the guy she&amp;#x27;d been in love with as a teenager: &amp;quot;He said he&amp;#x27;d phone. I knew he never would. Nights spent stalking the phone as a 15-year-old had at least taught me he wasn&amp;#x27;t the type to phone. But it didn&amp;#x27;t matter. I didn&amp;#x27;t care. This one-night stand had given me closure. My first love was no longer the boy who made my heart race like no other man had, ever since. From Sunhee, who decided to take a chance and try the one-time thing, which she&amp;#x27;d never done before: &amp;quot;Going in, I didn&amp;#x27;t think much about it. It was just something I wanted to experience, and I knew NYC was the place where it needed to happen. Afterward, I felt pretty stupid. I literally told people this was the stupidest thing I had ever done. Plus, having sex with someone I didn&amp;#x27;t actually like was boring. I haven&amp;#x27;t had a one-stand stand since.&amp;quot; From Mena, who didn&amp;#x27;t lose her virginity until 26 and felt like embracing singledom: &amp;quot;But still, the next morning, I woke up before 6 A.M. and felt really uncomfortable. I didn&amp;#x27;t want to be there. So, I lied about an early meeting, left, and never called him again. And he didn&amp;#x27;t call me, either. The only problem: Despite the fact that I didn&amp;#x27;t want to see this guy again, the fact that he clearly felt the same, and was on the same page as me, felt like tacit rejection. Which was hard. That&amp;#x27;s why I never did it again, but in a weird way, it&amp;#x27;s one of the most important things I&amp;#x27;ve ever done for myself.&amp;quot; For the entire stories of these women and more, read the full article over at Refinery29. Have you ever had a one-night stand? How did you feel about it? The good, the bad, and the ugly of one-time hookups: *10 Surprising Perks of the One-Night Stand *15 Annoying Things About One-Night Stands *A One-Night Stand Disaster (or Three)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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