You don’t know where he’s been: Sexual promiscuity negatively affects responses toward both gay and straight men.

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-76
Author(s):  
Corey L. Cook ◽  
Catherine A. Cottrell
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Promiscuity

Parasites and promiscuity: Acute disease salience leads to more restricted sexual attitudes

2021 ◽  
pp. 026540752110309
Author(s):  
James B. Moran ◽  
Nicholas Kerry ◽  
Jin X. Goh ◽  
Damian R. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Sexual Attitudes ◽  
Experimental Manipulation ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Acute Disease ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sexual Promiscuity

How does disease threat influence sexual attitudes and behaviors? Although research on the influence of disease threat on social behavior has grown considerably, the relationship between perceived disease threat and sexual attitudes remains unclear. The current preregistered study (analyzed N = 510), investigated how experimental reminders of disease threat influence attitudes and anticipated future behaviors pertaining to short-term sexual relationships, using an ecologically valid disease prime. The central preregistered prediction was that experimental manipulation of disease threat would lead to less favorable attitudes and inclinations toward sexual promiscuity. Results were consistent with this preregistered prediction, relative to both a neutral control condition and a non-disease threat condition. These experimental results were buttressed by the finding that dispositional variation in worry about disease threat predicted less favorable attitudes and inclinations toward short-term sexual relationships. This study represents the first preregistered investigation of the implications of acute disease threat for sexual attitudes.

Officers and Gentlemen

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-61
Author(s):  
Noelle Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Venereal Disease ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Double Standard ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Male Power ◽  
Positive Representations ◽  
Disease Focus ◽  
Sexual Promiscuity

This chapter asks what imaginative representations of venereal disease say about Restoration and eighteenth-century attitudes toward gender and sexuality. It does so by considering the portrayal of venereal infections in men. It is no coincidence that many of the positive representations of the disease focus on male rather than female subjects. It has been suggested that the sexual double standard (whereby men were applauded for sexual promiscuity and women punished for it) played some role in shaping imaginative representations of the infection. However, so too did a culture that linked infection to manliness and male power. While historians working with medical texts from the early modern period have tended to conclude that the disease was seen as originating with, and spread by, women, many eighteenth-century literary and artistic works imagine venereal disease as male—as a condition predominantly experienced by men, caused by male sexual indiscretion, and passed on by philandering husbands to their faithful wives and innocent children.

Bikinis and Other Atomic Incidents: The Synthetic Life of the Nuclear Pacific

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 (142) ◽  
pp. 37-56
Author(s):  
Sunny Xiang
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Global Risk ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
Atomic Age ◽  
Extreme Risk ◽  
White Femininity ◽  
The Face ◽  
Synthetic Life ◽  
Sexual Promiscuity

Abstract This article examines a range of mid-twentieth-century American fashions, particularly women’s intimate wear, that went by the name of “bikini.” In doing so, it identifies the bikini as an overt but unremarkable incident of racial and colonial violence. Treating the nuclear Pacific as conspicuously incidental in mainstream atomic culture enables new insights on the visual interplay between white femininity and primitive sexuality—an interplay that, the author argues, was integral to establishing domestic virtue and modern living as atomic age touchstones of “peace.” To elaborate on this argument, this article tracks the bikini’s achievement of propriety within a broader fashion revolution spurred by the use of high-tech fibers in swim, sleep, and support garments. It shows how an atomic ideal of “nature” arose from an imperial desire for security in the face of extreme risk—both the global risk of nuclear war and the domestic risk of sexual promiscuity.

Sexual Promiscuity

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Paul R. Gladden ◽  
Amanda Tedesco
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Promiscuity

Moral panic about sexual promiscuity: Heterogeneous scales in the identification of one middle-school Latina girl

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 11-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Clonan-Roy ◽  
Catherine R. Rhodes ◽  
Stanton Wortham
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Sexual Promiscuity

ALCOHOL, DRUG AND SEXUAL BACKPACKERS’ LICENTIOUSNESS IN THE LIGHT OF INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE RESEARCH

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 153-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolanta Barbara Jabłonkowska
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
International Comparative Research ◽  
International Comparative ◽  
Drug Overuse ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sexual Promiscuity

Purpose. Among the variety of backpaker’s behaviour, the excessive use of alcohol, drugs and sexual promiscuity are considered to be potentially dangerous for their physical and mental health. According to many researchers, this behavior is the result of backpakers’ loss of control in new social and cultural situations while travelling abroad. The aim of this study was to determine the role of drugs and sexual promiscuity in the backpackers’ travels and to find the reason for their behavior becoming less controlled. Method. In this paper, the results of field research on a group of 290 backpackers from Poland and other countries, conducted within the years 2014-2016 in 5 countries (Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Poland) are described. Findings. The obtained results enable us to indicate a new function of drugs in backpakers daily life and the relationship between drug overuse and backpackers’ experience in novel cultural conditions as well as their financial stance. Research and conclusion limitations. The article does not present a comprehensive study on the behaviour of backpackers, which is too complex, but primarily focuses on their uncontrolled drug consumption and sexual promiscuity. Practical implications. The data presented in this paper can be particularly important for individuals and institutions responsible for the development of local tourism. It is important to understand the attitudes and behaviour of backpackers, the emancipatory functions of sexual stimulants and sexual promiscuity. It is also necessary to continue this kind of research and to supplement the existing knowledge with the new contexts of the changes in the backpackers’ behaviour, also in case of the experience of Polish backpackers. Originality. This is the first paper prepared in Poland to describe and analyze the uncontrolled consumption of alcohol, drugs and sexual promiscuity among backpackers. Type of paper. The article presents the results of empirical research.

The Big Five related to risky sexual behaviour across 10 world regions: differential personality associations of sexual promiscuity and relationship infidelity

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Risky Sexual Behaviour ◽  
World Regions ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Sexual Promiscuity

As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, 16 362 participants from 52 nations responded to measures of the Big Five and ‘risky’ sexuality. It was expected that low levels of agreeableness and conscientiousness would be universally associated with relationship infidelity. Sexual promiscuity, in contrast, was expected to positively relate to extraversion and neuroticism. Analyses across 10 world regions revealed relationship infidelity was universally associated with low agreeableness and low conscientiousness. Sexual promiscuity was somewhat related to these traits as well, but was more highly related to extraversion across many, but not all, world regions. Both forms of risky sexual behaviour were generally unrelated to neuroticism and openness across cultures. Discussion focuses on possible explanations of regional differences in personality–sexuality linkages. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

scholarly journals The interpersonal meaning of sexual promiscuity

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1199-1212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick M. Markey ◽  
Charlotte N. Markey
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Promiscuity

Policing Sex: Explaining Demons in the Cognitive Economies of Religion

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 117-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Braxton
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Statistical Evidence ◽  
Empirical Testing ◽  
Selection Theory ◽  
Cultural Constructs ◽  
Sexual Selection Theory ◽  
Religious Systems ◽  
Sexual Promiscuity

AbstractThis article offers a cognitive theory of religious postulations of demonic beings in religious systems. I suggest a significant tension between a biological inheritance of moderate sexual promiscuity and the culturally imposed ideal of exclusive monogamy generates the salience of libidinous supernatural agents to human minds. I review sexual selection theory as applied to humans, the sexual proclivities of demonic cultural constructs, and survey the literature on demonic beings in religious systems. I offer statistical evidence of groupings of demon beliefs around the chief tension points suggested by sexual selection theory. I end with suggestions for further empirical testing of the theory.

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