“…Other work emphasizes how women have moved beyond passivity or responsiveness to men's sexual advances to include their own initiation and pleasure-seeking, persuading reluctant male partners to have sex, and experiencing success at negotiating safer sex (Anderson & Aymami, 1993;Anderson & Sorensen, 1996;Exner et al, 2003;Kamen, 2003;O'Sullivan & Byers, 1993. Recently, research has also underscored how experiences with rigid definitions of gender in heterosexual relationships can, at least in part, translate into the desire to move away from traditional scripts (Dworkin & O'Sullivan, 2005;OrtizTorres et al, 2003). Moving away from dominant cultural scripts may not only be rewarding at the individual or interpersonal level, but might also have important health implications given the ways in which overconformity to traditional gender norms has been found to be associated with HIV risk (Campbell, 1995(Campbell, , 1999Ortiz-Torres et al, 2003;Seal & Ehrhardt, 2003;Seal et al, 2000).…”