Mating Orientation Scales

Wanting casual sex and wanting a partner for life are not opposite ends of one scale: plenty of people want both, and some want neither. The Mating Orientation Scales (Jackson & Kirkpatrick, 2007) score the two separately: short-term mating orientation, your interest in uncommitted sex, and long-term mating orientation, your interest in a lasting romantic bond. 17 statements, compared with about 1,700 adults, with separate norms for men and women.