Hooking up, no strings attached, friends with benefits and one-night stands. These are phrases we're all familiar with. But when they're associated with women they're usually followed by the word 'shame.
Apparently good girls don't have one-night stands. And the dominant thought is women can't have sex without getting emotionally involved. But these ladies beg to differ. Like the women featured in VH1's new reality series Walk of Shame Shuttle, they say they've had great, no-strings-attached sex and they haven't regretted a single moment.
When it comes to casual sex, Natalia Provatas uses a cute analogy to describe it. The year-old from Los Angeles, California says: 'Some friends are the people you call in the middle of the night when you're stranded. It's like some penises are meant to have sex in the storage room in a bar and some are meant to marry.
No apologies: Natalia Provatas, 30, from LA, right, with a friend , says she doesn't regret any of the four one-night stands she's had. The freelance writer speaks from experience. In late , three years after breaking up with her long-term boyfriend, she hooked up in a storage room with a bartender she'd met that evening. It's one of four one-night stands or casual flings she's had since being single and she makes no apologies for it. Doubts: Natalia far left, pictured with friends admits she does still have a guilt-ridden internal dialogue about her one-night stands.
It was a deliberate choice between two adults, having a good time. That doesn't mean she doesn't have that internal, guilt-ridden dialogue. On the night she slept with the barman she asked herself, 'Am I a slut for doing this? But Natalia says: 'The other side of me said, "You feel connected to him.
