Sexual Script Theory: An Integrative Exploration of the Possibilities and Limits of Sexual Self-Definition

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanton L. Jones ◽  
Heather R. Hostler
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Applications ◽  
Control Beliefs ◽  
Sexual Script ◽  
Script Theory ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
Derived Set ◽  
Sexual Script Theory

Sexual Script Theory (SST) and its clinical applications are premised on the notion that the subjective understandings of individuals of their sexuality determine the persons' choices of sexual actions and the qualitative experiencing of those sexual acts. The key elements of SST and key Christian control beliefs about sexuality are described, and then related in an integrative exploration of SST. The limits of an understanding of psychological scripting grounded in an unfettered Constructivism, and the limits of a purely pragmatic understanding of script legitimacy, are each discussed. We develop the pervasive theme of the necessary connectedness of sexual scripting to the broader processes of self-definition, which for the Christian, are to be rooted in a biblically-derived set of categories that connect sexuality to the character of the whole person, to their union with a spouse in marriage, and to the human community (individually and corporately) in its relationship to God.

‘I like the way you move’: Theorizing fat, black and sexy

Sexualities ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 926-944 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney J Patterson-Faye
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Private Enterprises ◽  
Sexual Script ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Script Theory ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Sexual Script Theory ◽  
Depth Interviews

Moving past conceptualizations of ‘mammy,’ this article discusses fat black female sexuality through experiences of black women in the plus size fashion world. I posit that these women, their clothing, and their bodies’ movement underneath their clothing, subvert previous notions of fatness, blackness and sexuality. By mapping a black feminist lens onto sexual script theory, I analyze in-depth interviews with plus size models, bloggers and designers to show that fat black women and their utilization of clothing both embody and reject mammy, regard sexuality as public and private enterprises of self-reclamation, and subscribe to and complicate cultural norms of fat black (a)sexuality.

Reformulating Sexual Script Theory

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Frith ◽  
Celia Kitzinger
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Script ◽  
Script Theory ◽  
Sexual Script Theory

scholarly journals German Heterosexual Women’s Pornography Consumption and Sexual Behavior

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 237462381769811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chyng Feng Sun ◽  
Paul Wright ◽  
Nicola Steffen
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Script ◽  
Script Theory ◽  
Public Health Significance ◽  
Sex Drive ◽  
Pornography Consumption ◽  
Sexual Script Theory ◽  
Health Significance ◽  
And Gender

This study found that German heterosexual women’s personal and partnered consumption of pornography were positively correlated with their desire to engage in or having previously engaged in submissive (but not dominant) sexual behaviors such as having their hair pulled, having their face ejaculated on, being spanked, choked, called names, slapped, and gagged. The association between women’s partnered pornography consumption and submissive sexual behavior was strongest for women whose first exposure to pornography was at a young age. The findings also indicated that women’s personal and partnered pornography consumption were uniquely related to their engagement in submissive sexual behavior. Public Health Significance Statement: This study suggests that greater exposure to pornography among heterosexual German women is associated with their desire to engage in or having previously engaged in submissive sexual behaviors but not dominant behaviors. This pattern of correlations aligns with sexual script theory and content analyses of dominance and submission and gender in pornography. It does not align with the perspective that measures of pornography consumption are simply proxies for factors such as a high sex drive or an adventurous approach to sex.

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