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Becoming a (Gendered) Dating App User: An Analysis of How Heterosexual College Students Navigate Deception and Interactional Ambiguity on Dating Apps
Scholars have worked to understand how people use dating apps as this new technology changes sexual interactions. While previous scholarship has...
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Attraction Preferences of Men who have Sex with Men
The attraction preferences of men who have sex with men (MSM) are largely unknown. While previous research has examined certain aspects tied to...
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TV-MA: An Examination of Sexually Explicit Behaviours in “Sex and the City” and “The L Word” and Their Revivals
Sex and the City and The L Word were two groundbreaking television shows aimed at female audiences featuring explicit sexual content and queer...
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Water Pollution
All anthropogenic (man-made) chemicals and products made from them will make their way into the environment and pose a risk to water resources unless...
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A Study of Internet-Facilitated Violence Against Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown in Sub-Saharan Africa
Before the influx of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Africa was seen as a dark continent (Agwe-Mbarika et...
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Gender and Hooking Up
Hookups, or encounters that include varied sexual behaviors without expectation of a committed relationship, have received substantial academic and...
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Caring, Chemistry, and Orgasms: Components of Great Sexual Experiences
Sexual satisfaction is important to individual well-being and relationship satisfaction, making it a research topic relevant for sex clinicians and...
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Contextualizing race and sex-related health disparities: doing difference and sexual risk behaviors
Sexually transmitted infections (STI) are a group of illnesses that disproportionately impact emerging adults, ages 18–25, African Americans, and...
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How Sexual Information Sources are Related to Emerging Adults’ Sex-Positive Scripts and Sexual Communication
Prior research suggests that parents, peers, and media are popular sources of sexual information and beliefs among emerging adults. Sex-positivity is...
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Family Socioeconomic Status and Chinese College Students’ Premarital Sexual Attitudes and Behavior
This article examines the distinct impact of different dimensions of family socioeconomic status (SES) on premarital sexual permissive attitudes and...
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Digitalisierte intime Bewertung
Intimate valuation is central in human mating. As more and more couples meet online, it is crucial to study the consequences of digitalization,...
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Asking out and Sliding in: Gendered Relationship Pathways in College Hookup Culture
The cultural dominance of non-relational sexual scripts for short-term sexual encounters on college campuses, combined with the persistence of...
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“You Can’t Force Someone to Want You”: Investigating Consent, Tokenism, and Play in Reality Dating Shows
In this chapter, the authors analyze the relationship of consent with sexual and racial minorities through three frames: the Magic Circle, the...
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The institutional logics of love: the order of passion in an intimate field
We use Multiple Correspondence Analysis to capture the institutional logics of love and intimacy among a random sample of American university...
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The Link Between Age and Partner Preferences in a Large, International Sample of Single Women
Women’s capacity to reproduce varies over the life span, and developmental goals such as family formation are age-graded and shaped by social norms...
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Unwanted Sex on Campus: The Overlooked Role of Interactional Pressures and Gendered Sexual Scripts
Past research on unwanted sex has often emphasized individual risk factors or institutional determinants. As a supplement to past research, this...
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Being in the Know
Gossip (evaluative talk about others) is ubiquitous. Gossip allows important rules to be clarified and reinforced, and it allows individuals to keep...
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Exercising Agency: Women, Endometriosis and the Navigation of Sexual Relationships
Roughly 160 million women live with endometriosis, a chronic disease involving the uterine lining shedding on the outside of the uterus causing...
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Was it Good for You? Gender Differences in Motives and Emotional Outcomes Following Casual Sex
Casual sex, also referred to as a hookup, has been associated with a range of negative emotional outcomes for women, including regret, anxiety,...
