Michie
06-19-2007, 07:06 PM
Once in a relationship, both genders have similar attitudes about sexuality
By Jeanna Bryner
Updated: 2:49 p.m. ET June 19, 2007
Bachelors might have sex on their minds more than their single female counterparts, but once in a committed relationship, men and women have similar attitudes toward the act, a new study finds.
The results, published in the April issue of the journal Sex Roles, reveal how sexual stereotypes, in which guys want to go for it and gals tend to resist, don’t hold when romantic feelings come into play.
“Men experience a lot of pressure in our society to have sex with a number of different partners,” said one of the study’s researchers, Paul Perrin, a graduate student in psychology at the University of Florida, “the opposite of what women experience as kind of the gatekeepers of sexuality.”
Past studies, the scientists point out, have shown that compared with women, men are more sexually permissive, endorse casual sex at higher rates and masturbate more often.
And even in dreamland, men are from Mars and women from Venus. A recent study showed men were more than twice as likely as women to report dreams about multiple sex partners.
Sex spin factor
Tom Tiegs of UF and Perrin, along with their colleagues, surveyed 208 women and 131 men in an introductory psychology course there. The students rated 160 statements on a scale ranging from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree” regarding their sexual behaviors and attitudes. The statements fell into four categories.
In category 1, “sex as personally and physically pleasurable,” statements included:
I should get drunk to enhance my sexual experience.
If I want to be close to someone, I should have sex.
I should have sex with my partner so he/she will not leave me.
I should have sex with as many people as possible.
In category 2, “sex as beneficial in creating positive feelings about oneself,” statements included:
Sex makes my partner love me.
I feel attractive after sex.
I trust my partner more after sex.
In category 3, “sex as personally costly in terms of having negative emotional, psychological or physical consequences,” statements included:
Sex makes me feel guilty for violating my morals.
God will punish me for having sex.
Having a one-night stand makes me feel cheap.
I will get an STD by having sex.
In category 4, “sex as a violation of social injunctions," statements included:
I should engage in premarital sex.
I should be with my partner a long time before I have sex.
I should not have sex because I’m too attached to someone I’m having sex with.
Continued- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19310385/
By Jeanna Bryner
Updated: 2:49 p.m. ET June 19, 2007
Bachelors might have sex on their minds more than their single female counterparts, but once in a committed relationship, men and women have similar attitudes toward the act, a new study finds.
The results, published in the April issue of the journal Sex Roles, reveal how sexual stereotypes, in which guys want to go for it and gals tend to resist, don’t hold when romantic feelings come into play.
“Men experience a lot of pressure in our society to have sex with a number of different partners,” said one of the study’s researchers, Paul Perrin, a graduate student in psychology at the University of Florida, “the opposite of what women experience as kind of the gatekeepers of sexuality.”
Past studies, the scientists point out, have shown that compared with women, men are more sexually permissive, endorse casual sex at higher rates and masturbate more often.
And even in dreamland, men are from Mars and women from Venus. A recent study showed men were more than twice as likely as women to report dreams about multiple sex partners.
Sex spin factor
Tom Tiegs of UF and Perrin, along with their colleagues, surveyed 208 women and 131 men in an introductory psychology course there. The students rated 160 statements on a scale ranging from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree” regarding their sexual behaviors and attitudes. The statements fell into four categories.
In category 1, “sex as personally and physically pleasurable,” statements included:
I should get drunk to enhance my sexual experience.
If I want to be close to someone, I should have sex.
I should have sex with my partner so he/she will not leave me.
I should have sex with as many people as possible.
In category 2, “sex as beneficial in creating positive feelings about oneself,” statements included:
Sex makes my partner love me.
I feel attractive after sex.
I trust my partner more after sex.
In category 3, “sex as personally costly in terms of having negative emotional, psychological or physical consequences,” statements included:
Sex makes me feel guilty for violating my morals.
God will punish me for having sex.
Having a one-night stand makes me feel cheap.
I will get an STD by having sex.
In category 4, “sex as a violation of social injunctions," statements included:
I should engage in premarital sex.
I should be with my partner a long time before I have sex.
I should not have sex because I’m too attached to someone I’m having sex with.
Continued- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19310385/