Showing papers in "Journal of psychology & human sexuality in 1989"

Gender Differences in Receptivity to Sexual Offers

Abstract: According to cultural stereotypes, men are more eager for sex than are women; women are more likely to set limits on such activity. In this paper, we review the work of theorists who have argued in favor of this proposition and review the interview and correlational data which support this contention. Finally, we report two experimental tests of ihis hypothesis. In these experiments, conducted in 1978 and 1982, male and female confederates of average attractiveness approached potential partners with one of three requests: "Would you go out tonight?" "Will you come over to my apartment?" or "Would you go to bed with me?" The great majority of men were willing to have a sexual liaison with the women who approached them. Women were not. Not one woman agreed to a sexual liaison. Many possible reasons for this marked gender difference were discussed. These studies were run in 1978 and 1982. It has since become important to track how the threat of AIDS is affecting men and women's willingness to date, come to a...

Staging of Psychological Reactions to HIV Infection in Asymptomatic Homosexual Men

Abstract: The authors offer a proposed model of staging of reaction to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in asyrnptomatic homosexual men. This model is an adaptation of the Kubler- Ross (1970) model of reaction to the information of diagnoses of a terminal illness. This adaptation has been found necessary because of the uncertain related to HIV infection and the effect the status brings upon an a ready stigmatized minority. This model was developed based upon a case-note review of responses of 153 patients who were informed of their HIV antibody positive status and followed through for a period of one and three years.

Gender and Sexual Motivation: An Exploration of Two Assumptions

Abstract: The literature on sexual motivation consistently depicts males as primarily motivated by physical and women by emotional factors. Supporting research has been almost exclusively limited to predominantly unmarried teenagers and college aged students, implicitly assuming the absence of age differences in sexual motivation. There has also been a tendency to infer personal values from stated motivations. The present study questions these two assumptions by analyzing two questions included in a survey of 179 adults aged 22 to 57 years, one on respondents' usual motive for engaging in sexual intercourse and anoth6r on their assessment of its most important benefit. An Analysis of Variance reveals significant gender differences in usual motivation but nor in ideal benefits and significant interactions between gender and age in both usual and ideal motivations. Further, we found only a moderate relationship between usual motive for engaging in sexual intercourse and respondent's assessment of its most important b...

Expected Impact of Sex-Related Events on Dating Relationships

Abstract: Students at a midwest university were asked to indicate their expectations concerning how their commitment to and the stability of their dating relationship would change as a result of severa1 sex-related events occurring. Subjects were told to imagine that these events had happened either to the self or to the partner (randomly assigned). These events were: testing positive on the AIDS antibody test, getting a full case of AIDS, having an heterosexual extrarelational affair, having a homosexual extrarelational affair, being raped, contracting herpes, getting pregnant, and having an abortion (the latter two were always presented as happening to the female partner). Subjects expected that most of these events would negative1 affect their commitment to their dating relationship and the actual stability of the relationship. The results from an ANOVA indicated that how subjects responded to some of the events depended on their gender and/or on whether the events were presented as occurring to the self or to t...