Table 3.

Differences in motivation to engage in sex with virtual and real-life partnets.

	Virtual partner			Real life partner			n	df	Paired samples		Cohen’s d
	Mean	Standard deviation	Rank order	Mean	Standard deviation	Rank order			t	p
Pleasure	3.41	1.12	1	3.83	1.00	1	78	77	−3.169	0.002	0.36
Physical desirability	3.11	1.23	2	3.58	1.03	2	79	78	−3.418	0.001	0.39
Experience seeking	2.92	1.28	3	2.87	1.09	4	78	77	0.360	0.720	0.04
Love and commitment	2.89	1.19	4	3.48	1.15	3	80	79	−3.654	0.000	0.41
Self esteem boost	2.88	1.35	5	2.59	1.13	6	80	79	2.175	0.033	0.25
Resources	2.76	1.47	6	1.85	1.14	11	78	77	5.641	0.000	0.64
Stress reduction	2.68	1.02	7	2.80	1.14	5	80	79	−0.904	0.369	0.10
Thrill of the forbidden	2.46	1.20	8	2.20	1.14	8	79	78	2.266	0.026	0.25
Emotional expression	2.24	1.11	9	2.48	1.04	7	80	79	−1.679	0.097	0.19
Specific Sex	2.01	1.35	10	1.54	0.84	14	79	78	3.543	0.001	0.40
Duty or pressure	1.98	1.03	11	2.06	1.05	9	80	79	−0.961	0.339	0.11
Mate guarding	1.95	1.20	12	1.93	1.12	10	80	79	0.212	0.833	0.02
Other gender	1.94	1.09	13	1.81	0.99	12	80	79	1.296	0.199	0.15
Utilitarian reasons	1.68	0.93	14	1.78	0.93	13	79	78	−1.380	0.172	0.15
Social status	1.49	1.05	15	1.39	0.93	16	79	78	1.000	0.320	0.11
Revenge	1.39	0.77	16	1.43	0.86	15	79	78	−0.652	0.516	0.08

Significant differences are highlighted in bold. ^*p < 0.05; ^**p < 0.01; ^***p < 0.001; Cohen’s criteria for small, medium, and large effects: small: 0,2, medium: 0,5; large: 0,8 or greater.