'He Enjoys Giving Her Pleasure': Diversity and Complexity in Young Men’s Sexual Scripts
Autor: | Elizabeth A. Wells, N. Tatiana Masters, Marilyn J. Hoppe, Diane M. Morrison, Blair Beadnell, Erin A. Casey |
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Rok vydání: | 2014 |
Předmět: |
Male
Pleasure Sexual Behavior media_common.quotation_subject Emotions education Poison control Human sexuality behavioral disciplines and activities Article Developmental psychology Interviews as Topic Thinking Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Humans Heterosexuality General Psychology media_common Masculinity Sexual attraction Men Health Surveys Exploratory factor analysis Sexual Partners Female Factor Analysis Statistical Psychology Social psychology Diversity (politics) |
Zdroj: | Archives of Sexual Behavior. 44:655-668 |
ISSN: | 1573-2800 0004-0002 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10508-014-0354-7 |
Popis: | Research on heterosexual men’s sexual expectations has focused on self-described personal traits and culturally dominant models of masculinity. In a pair of studies, we used a sexual scripts perspective to explore the range and diversity of young men’s thoughts about sex and relationships with women and to develop measures for assessing these scripts. In the first study, we conducted semi-structured interviews to elicit young men’s accounts of their sexual relationships. We used these narratives to produce brief sexual script scenarios describing typical sexual situations, as well as conventional survey items assessing sexual behavior themes. In the second study, we administered the scenarios and theme items to an ethnically diverse, national sample of 648 heterosexually-active young men in an online survey. Using exploratory factor analysis, we delineated sets of sexual scripts and sexual behavior themes. In the scenarios, we found both a traditional masculine “player” script and a script that emphasized mutual sexual pleasure. Analysis of theme items produced scales of Drinking and Courtship, Monogamy and Emotion, and Sexual Focus and Variety. We discuss the implications of these findings for understanding heterosexual men’s thinking about sexuality and how cultural change in sexual thinking may arise. We also discuss the need for measures of sexual thinking that better integrate perceptions and expectations about the partner as well as the self in relation to the partner, rather than solely self-assessed traits. |
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