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Hook-up culture among young Indian adults in Indian metropolitan cities
This study aimed to explore the existence of hook-up behaviour among emerging adults in the Indian metropolitan cities of Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi...
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Social Motivations for College Hookups
Hookups are a normative experience for college students with 72% of college students reporting hooking up by their Senior year. Although there is...
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Hooking Up and Emerging Adults’ Relationship Attitudes and Expectations
The dating landscape has changed markedly in recent years, with many emerging adults taking a less committed approach to relationships and sex (e.g.,...
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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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‘Kind of a Mix Between Kinky and Slutty’: Describing Promiscuity Using Qualitative Analysis
Definitions of promiscuity include a wide range of behaviors, including premarital sexual behaviors, having a high number of lifetime sexual...
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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 Impact of Sexual History and Relationship Type on Social Perceptions
The sexual double standard (SDS) suggests that society holds gendered standards for appropriate sexual behaviors and histories. Typically, people...
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Taking a Test Drive?: Implicit Theories Sexual Compatibility
Implicit Theories of Relationships address assumptions about the nature of romantic relationships, whether they are destined to succeed or grow over...
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Young Adults’ Relationship Beliefs and Sexual Behavior: The Intersection of Religion, Race, and Sexual Identity
Common associations between religiosity and beliefs or behaviors related to love and sexuality could differ by race and sexual identity. Data from...
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Moral Dilemmas of Spanish Youth: Consent in Alcohol-Mediated Affective-Sexual Relationships in Nightlife
In recent years, the issue of sexual consent in relationships influenced by alcohol and other substances has come under scrutiny and analysis within...
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“People are desperate for intimacy”: ‘Intimacy Urgencies’ and ‘Doing Trust’—How do Grindr users Respond to Risks of Violence in Contemporary India?
This article is situated within larger research on crime and queer intimate economy in contemporary India. Specifically, the article focuses on how...
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The Fifth Skin: Capitalism, Modernity/Coloniality and Patriarchy
The chapter focuses on the fifth skin, which corresponds to the world environment, to the global ecology. It is the last layer, which surrounds all...
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“That Was Fun, I Gotta Run:” Comparing Exit Strategies of a One-Time Sexual Encounter to Buyer–Seller Relationship Dissolution
Existing literature on sexual behavior has often examined several different types of casual sexual relationships (CSRs) collectively as a CSR as...
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Introduction
The introduction of the book provides a beginning orientation to Big Beautiful Women spaces and their relevance to a broader understanding of fat...
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Making a Place for Our Selves: A Story About Longing, Relationships, and the Search for Home
I use an ‘autoethnographic’ or ‘creative non-fiction’ writing approach to share a story of my relationship with my Italian-born father, a stone mason...
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Methods and Epistemologies
BBW culture has largely remained beneath scholarly interest. As a foundational project exploring these spaces, the choice of methodology was vitally...
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“Thanks for Telling Me”: The Impact of Disclosing Sex Secrets on Romantic Relationships
This research investigated the relationship consequences of disclosing sexual secrets to a romantic partner. Analyses of data from a 39-item Internet...
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Relationship of High-Risk Sexual Behaviors, Sexual Knowledge, and Sexual Satisfaction Among African American College Students: Toward a Sex Positive Approach to STI Prevention
Collegiate hookups often involve sexual behaviors that place students at risk for unwanted pregnancies and for contracting HIV and other sexually...
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Bashes as Spaces for Healing Everyday Trauma of Fatphobia
Acting as a foil to the preceding chapter, Chap. 5 explores the many positive characteristics of bash...
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Online Halal Dating: AyoPoligami and the Contestations of Polygamy as the “New Normal” in Indonesia
This chapter explores how the online datingDating app AyoPoligamiAyoPoligami expresses a halal lifestyle, lifestyle that has become increasingly...