Sexual‐moral attitudes, love styles, and mate selection

Abstract

Students at a southwestern university were surveyed to test the interrelations of three constructs: sexual-moral attitudes, love styles, and attraction criteria. Following the procedures of the National Health and Social Life Survey, from which the sexual-moral attitude items were obtained, we conducted a cluster analysis to create attitudinal groupings. We obtained four clusters representing various nuances of liberalism and conservatism. When compared on love styles, the clusters differed primarily on ludus and pragma. Not only did some of the liberal clusters differ from some of the conservative ones on love styles, but there were also some differences within liberalism and within conservatism. Cluster differences also emerged on the attraction criteria.

Partner Selection for People with Intellectual Disabilities

“…) and good financial resources (Lacey et al . ). These traits may be valued due to the prospect of having children with a potential partner who could ‘provide’ for his family (Lacey et al .…”

“…These traits may be valued due to the prospect of having children with a potential partner who could ‘provide’ for his family (Lacey et al . ). Women in this present research showed no interest in these qualities, implying that their expression of love could be ‘less gender stereotyped’ than it was for non‐intellectually disabled adults.…”

Love Styles and Desire for Closeness in Romantic Relationships

“…The ludus love style is associated with lower relational and sexual satisfaction (Fricker & Moore, 2002). Ludus lovers tend to engage in more infidelity (Wiederman, 1999), are more narcissistic (Campbell, Foster, & Finkel, 2002), tend to have more defeatist attitudes about romance (Williams & Schill, 1994), and possess more liberal views concerning sex, and engage in sexual interactions more frequently (Hensley, 1996;Lacey, Reifman, Scott, Harris, & Fitzpatrick, 2004). Furthermore, ludus partners perceive they are in love either very rarely or very often, depending on whether they view romantic encounters as casual affairs or love affairs (Hendrick & Hendrick, 1986).…”

Sexual Selection for Moral Virtues

“…For example, high openness (interest in novel experiences, aesthetics, and culture) predicts the moral virtues of emotional sensitivity (Schutte et al 1998), social tolerance (Dollinger et al 1996), political liberalism (McCrae 1996;Butler 2000), and support for universal values-the sort that would be supported by Kant's categorical imperative (Roccas et al 2002). On the other hand, low openness predicts the moral virtues of temperance, chastity, stoicism, community solidarity, pride in one's people and traditions, and clarity of gender role (manliness or femininity) (see Kendler et al 1997;Lacey et al 2004)-which academics tend to label vices ("right-wing authoritarianism," racism, sex-pg 107 # 11…”