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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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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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Defining and Describing Situationships: An Exploratory Investigation
A romantic trajectory that has received little attention in the literature is “situationships,” which is a colloquial term used in some Western...
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Trends in RV Leisure Travel amid COVID-19
The aim of this chapter is to describe ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic affected a subset of the tourism industry: with a specific focus on the...
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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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Scripting Sex in Courtship: Predicting Genital Contact in Date Outcomes
Despite increasing egalitarian values expressed among college students, dating is still characterized by traditional gender roles. Because...
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Dating in captivity: creativity, digital affordance, and the organization of interaction in online dating during quarantine
Unprecedented times compel new ways to explore relationships. Using interviews with dating app users quarantined in American cities at the height of...
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Dating in Motion: Online Dating Through the Lives of Different Generations of Men Who Have Sex with Men
From the early years of the internet, its key importance was recognized as a site for sexual minorities to explore and express their identity and...
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Looking for Lockdown Love Online: A Literature Review on Virtual Partner Selection During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Poor outcomes have been associated with the absence of a romantic partner, yet the COVID-19 pandemic triggered unprecedented restrictions on people’s...
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“Bad Girls” Say No and “Good Girls” Say Yes: Sexual Subjectivity and Participation in Undesired Sex During Heterosexual College Hookups
Young people’s sexuality is often discursively constructed within the confines of a masculine/feminine binary that minimizes young women’s sexual...
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Dating Apps and Shifting Sexual Subjectivities of Men Seeking Men Online
Leading theories of the recent history of sexuality have pointed to trends toward detraditionalization and precarity in intimate relations, but also...
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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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Examining Sexual Violence as a Predictor of Sexual Ambivalence
Sexual ambivalence can be defined as an experience of sexual behavior as both wanted and unwanted, to some degree, in a particular sexual situation....
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Sex at Sea: Undergraduates’ Perceptions of Sexual Relationships During Their Semester at Sea Voyage
Often viewed as right of passage in emerging adulthood on college campuses, most undergraduate students participate in casual sex during their...
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Gender Differences in Sex Secret Disclosure to a Romantic Partner
This research investigated whether there are gender differences in revealing sex secrets to a romantic partner, including the number and type of...
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Queer dating during social distancing using a text-based app
Sex and gender queer people experience feelings of isolation in a vast array of ways. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, queer people have been forced...
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Genetics—The Language of Proteomics
Genomics, this discipline of laboratory-based diagnostics, has evolved during the last century into a medical field with therapeutic potential. This...
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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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Sexual Skills, Sexual Responsiveness, and Sexual Mindfulness: Components of Great Sexual Experiences
Sexual satisfaction is important to individual well-being and relationship satisfaction, making it a relevant research topic for researchers and...
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The Experience of Sex Guilt: The Roles of Parenting, Adult Attachment, and Sociosexuality
Sociosexuality, comfort with sex outside the confines of a committed relationship, and parent–child dynamics have been associated with experiences of...
