Gender and sexual economics: do women view sex as a female commodity?
Psychol Sci
; 25(7): 1438-47, 2014 Jul.
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ABSTRACT
In the study reported here, data from implicit and behavioral choice measures did not support sexual economics theory's (SET's) central tenet that women view female sexuality as a commodity. Instead, men endorsed sexual exchange more than women did, which supports the idea that SET is a vestige of patriarchy. Further, men's sexual advice, more than women's, enforced the sexual double standard (i.e., men encouraged men more than women to have casual sex)-a gender difference that was mediated by hostile sexism, but also by men's greater implicit investment in sexual economics. That is, men were more likely to suppress female sexuality because they resisted female empowerment and automatically associated sex with money more than women did. It appears that women are not invested in sexual economics, but rather, men are invested in patriarchy, even when it means raising the price of sexual relations.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Comportamento Sexual
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Atitude
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Fatores Sexuais
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Sexismo
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Relações Interpessoais
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Health_economic_evaluation
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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En
Ano de publicação:
2014
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Article