Examining predictors of sex guilt in multiethnic samples of women

Dunn, Kristi M.

doi:10.1007/bf01542409

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“…A study of African-American women in Los Angeles found that women who depended on their male partners for financial assistance for housing were more likely to have sex without condoms than women who did not depend on men for economic reasons (161). By contrast among women who expressly have sex with male clients for economic purposes, condom use was more frequent in that setting than with their primary partners (96).…”

Section: Gender Inequalities In Relation To Sex Violence and Drugsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reframing Women's Risk: Social Inequalities and HIV Infection

Zierler

Krieger²

1997

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Social inequalities lie at the heart of risk of HIV infection among women in the United States. As of December, 1995, 71,818 US women had developed AIDSdefining diagnoses. These women have been disproportionately poor, AfricanAmerican, and Latina. Their neighborhoods have been burdened by poverty, racism, crack cocaine, heroin, and violence. To explain which women are at risk and why, this article reviews the epidemiology of HIV and AIDS among women in light of four conceptual frameworks linking health and social justice: feminism, social production of disease/political economy of health, ecosocial, and human rights. The article applies these alternative theories to describe sociopolitical contexts for AIDS' emergence and spread in the United States, and reviews evidence linking inequalities of class, race/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, as well as strategies of resistance to these inequalities, to the distribution of HIV among women.

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Section: Gender Inequalities In Relation To Sex Violence and Drugsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reframing Women's Risk: Social Inequalities and HIV Infection

Zierler

Krieger²

1997

Annu. Rev. Public Health

304

192

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“…Being familiar with Judeo-Christian culture, Freud (1907Freud ( /1961 argued that the religious aim is to both allow a canalized expression of sexual guilt and to repress sexual desire. Several studies, consistently across decades, have shown that religiosity is positively related to sexual guilt, which in turn leads to more restrictive sexuality (e.g., Gunderson & McCary, 1979;Woo et al, 2012;Wyatt & Dunn, 1991).…”

Section: Related Affects and Thoughtsmentioning

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Religiosity and Sexual Behavior: Tense Relationships and Underlying Affects and Cognitions in Samples of Christian and Muslim Traditions

Rigo

Saroglou

2018

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Religion's historical mistrust of sexuality shapes people's behavior by inhibiting liberal sexuality. Still, it is unclear whether this inhibitive role also includes common, normative sexual behavior, particularly in secularized contexts. Moreover, the possible mediating effects emotions, affects, and thoughts have on the association between religiosity and restricted sexuality have never been integrated into a single model. Finally, cross-religious differences in common sexual behavior have still yet to be documented. We addressed these three issues in two studies, with samples of Catholic and Muslim tradition (total N = 446). Consistently across samples, religiosity predicted, either directly or indirectly, less frequent common heterosexual behaviors and masturbation, partly through sexual guilt and inhibition, and/or decreased sexual fantasy and the search for sexual pleasure. However, married Muslims’ religiosity, unlike Catholics’, did not directly undermine fertility-oriented sexuality and the search for pleasure. Religion's role in restricting sexuality seems to be rooted in deep psychological rationale.

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“…depression and anxiety) that may be associated with decreased power in diverse samples of women (Franko et al, 2004; Kendler et al, 2003). Further, evidence supports a relationship between undesirable life changes and condom negotiation (Wyatt & Dunn, 1991). Although the current study is not specifically focused on condom negotiation, a well-established link between women's perceived power in intimate relationships and their ability to negotiate condom use with a romantic partner exists (e.g.…”

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HIV Infection, Stressful Life Events, and Intimate Relationship Power: The Moderating Role of Community Resources for Black South African Women

2009

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Background Black women in South Africa are vulnerable with limited power in intimate relationships. This study explored whether stressful life events and/or HIV infection were associated with relationship power and whether the impact was moderated by community resources. Method 104 women living with HIV (WLWH) and 152 women not living with HIV (WNLWH) participated in individual interviews. Results Undesirable life changes were negatively associated with relationship control. HIV infection and women's knowledge of community resources were associated with mutual decision-making, while frequency of family use of community resources was negatively related to female dominated decisions. WLWH perceived their male partners as less dominant when they perceived their community resources to be more helpful. Conclusions Power in intimate relationships may enhance the quality and length of life for black South African women living with HIV. Knowledge of and perceived helpfulness of community resources are avenues for promoting relationship power.

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Examining predictors of sex guilt in multiethnic samples of women

Cited by 21 publications

References 43 publications

Reframing Women's Risk: Social Inequalities and HIV Infection

Reframing Women's Risk: Social Inequalities and HIV Infection

Religiosity and Sexual Behavior: Tense Relationships and Underlying Affects and Cognitions in Samples of Christian and Muslim Traditions

HIV Infection, Stressful Life Events, and Intimate Relationship Power: The Moderating Role of Community Resources for Black South African Women

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