Are the times changing? An analysis of gender differences in sexual graffiti

Arluke, Arnold; Kutakoff, Lanny; Levin, Jack

doi:10.1007/bf00302846

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“…Accordingly, the results of the present study are consistent with the previous studies which supported empirically gender differences in sexual slang use (e.g. Myers and Cortese, 1995;De Klerk, 1990;Phillips, 1990;Preston and Stanley, 1987;Arluke, Kutakoff and Levin, 1987;Jay, 1980). Figure 2.4 also shows that the second most popular topic of interest after sex is evaluation of people.…”

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“…Furthermore, some linguists argue that men use slang more than women, and anyone of any socio-economic status can use slang in appropriate situations (e.g. Arluke, Kutakoff and Levin, 1987;Lighter 1994;Myers and Cortese, 1995;Tannen, 1990). Based on the generalizations above about slang, the present study is geared towards investigating whether the use of slang among Saudi youth fits some of the aforementioned characterizations.…”

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Saudi Youth Slang Innovations: A Sociolinguistic Approach

Gomaa¹

2015

IJLC

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This study is a sociolinguistic investigation of Saudi youth slang. Contrary to the situation in many countries, where research and projects on youth slang are popular, Saudi Arabia is destitute of systematic records and analysis of this linguistic phenomenon. The study analyzes the social factors influencing it. Besides, it sheds lights on the sources from which Saudi youth acquire new slang expressions and the reasons for using them. Moreover, it discusses the major topics of interest on which Saudi youth slang focuses. The study concludes that age and Saudi youth slang are negatively correlated. That is, the younger a person is, the higher the level of his/her acquaintance of slang. In addition, it shows that men use more slang expressions than women. Furthermore, it indicates that men and women have different interests in terms of Saudi youth slang topics, especially the sexual ones. Some typical examples of current Saudi youth slang are also provided.

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Section: Distributions Of Topics Of Interest Of Sys Between Men and Wsupporting

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Gomaa¹

2015

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“…In 1987, Arnold Arluke, Lanny Kutakoff, and Jack Levin examined whether the graffiti gender gap had actually narrowed over time. The group found that women continued to make fewer sexual references than men.…”

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Is It Philosophy or Pornography? Graffiti at the Dinosaur Bar‐B‐Que

Bartholome

Snyder

2004

J of American Culture

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“…Heterosexual men, women, gay men and lesbians speak with distinctive sexual lexicons and prefer different terms for genitalia and sexual acts (Walsh and Leonard, 1974;Sanders, 1978;Sanders and Robinson, 1979;Terry, 1983Terry, , 1994Wells, 1989Wells, , 1990. Men and women also write different kinds of sexual graffiti (Bruner and Kelso, 1980;Arluke, Kutakoff and Levin, 1987); that is, men's graffiti is more sexually suggestive and less socially acceptable relative to women's. Men's graffiti also tends to be more racist, more homophobic and less romantic than women's graffiti.…”

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Gender and the language of religion

2006

Choice Reviews Online

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Cursing is the use of offensive emotional language to express one's emotions and communicate them to others. Cursing is ubiquitous in American social life. Many questions remain to be answered since scholars have given the phenomenon scant attention over the years. Here I focus on two questions: Why do American men curse more than American women do?; What role does religion play in the process? These questions allow us to review research on three psychosocial factors, gender identity, religiosity and cursing. My aim is to demonstrate that people who curse use offensive language primarily to express anger or frustration, and that gender and religiosity moderate this habit (as do mental status, hostility and alcohol use). Religious women seem to be doubly restricted from cursing, first for their gender (men can express aggression more openly than women can) and second for their religious beliefs (Christians should not use profanity). I review religious restrictions on language, the relationship between religiosity and cursing, the relationship between sex anxiety and cursing, women's use of taboo language, and working-class women as a counterexample. I begin the discussion with an examination of recent increases in women's public cursing and an outline of cross-cultural cursing comparisons. American women's cursing: past and present Curse words persist over hundreds of years because they are useful to a culture (see Hughes, 1991). Until recently it was difficult to get an accurate measure of how frequently curse words were used in public. All written records and documents have been censored and estimates of cursing based on written materials are entirely unreliable. Frequency estimation

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Are the times changing? An analysis of gender differences in sexual graffiti

Cited by 21 publications

References 5 publications

Saudi Youth Slang Innovations: A Sociolinguistic Approach

Saudi Youth Slang Innovations: A Sociolinguistic Approach

Is It Philosophy or Pornography? Graffiti at the Dinosaur Bar‐B‐Que

Gender and the language of religion

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