A comparative study on the effect of Romantic Comedies on Females and Males young adults

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Romantic comedies have now become one of the top rated genres in Hollywood and most watched movies around the globe.

Movies such as these are now an attraction to mostly female viewers who technically adore the cliché of "Happily ever after".

Here and there, women are heard complaining about the men around them, fantasizing about that perfect love that in all reality, they might never really get.

In order to dig deeper into the topic, a survey was made for young men and women ages 18-28 to see if romantic movies do give them unrealistic expectations for their love and sex life.

The researcher wants to examine not only the romantic expectations in their relationships, but the sexual expectations and whether the reality of intimate sex was in fact what was seen in movie love scenes.

We want to ask both men and women, what are they expecting from the relationship? And whether or not their sexual satisfaction was emotionally fulfilled.

Among knowing this, we will find out the difference between how both genders think, and if one is more affected than the other.

With our results we might discover whether the flaw is in fact in the opposite gender around them, or if young people have just set the bar so high that not even the small tokens they receive are good enough? To begin with, 100% of the women do watch romantic comedies, while only 52% of men do, revealing which gender would be more affected by the movies before even asking or analyzing the other questions.

Women are stereotypically more emotional than men, but the second hypothesis was also correct.

The results show that females are more concerned about the romance and emotional satisfaction than the physical and the sexual or at least express it more than males do.