‘So How Did Your Condom Use Go Last Night, Daddy?’ Sex Talk and Daily Life

Lewis, Jill

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-25549-8_19

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“…The respondent may answer honestly (although perhaps not accurately) with an average frequency or with the frequency of sex with the most recent partner, or the respondent may use an alternative strategy to answer the question. As Lewis (1997) emphasized, in contemporary America, “… many sexual lives are in erratic circulation and transition” (p. 250). For this reason, we suggest that the results for the relationship between the frequency of sex and the relationship dissolution variables be interpreted carefully.…”

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Relationship Dissolution as a Life Stage Transition: Effects on Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors

Wade¹,

DeLamater²

2002

J of Marriage and Family

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ࡗ Relationship Dissolution as a Life Stage Transition: Effects on Sexual Attitudes and BehaviorsIn this paper, with the use of linear regressions to investigate how relationship dissolution affects sexual attitudes and behaviors, the authors address the stereotype that newly single people seek multiple sexual partners. Although the newly single people surveyed did obtain new sexual partners, the rate at which they acquired new partners did not support the stereotype. Specifically, men with custody of their children seemed oriented toward finding a steady partner. Additionally, men and women with low incomes reported relatively high rates of partner acquisition after relationship dissolution. The high rates reported by disadvantaged groups may be more directly related to familial instability accompanying poverty than to cultural characteristics associated with income or race. We argue that a life stage model with categorical stages in a rigid, anachronistic progression provides insufficient means to gain an understanding of newly single people.Newly single people are often imagined to be wildly sexual, seeking multiple partners out of a sense of freedom or out of desperation for validation. This stereotype resonates in part because, of all dimensions of identity, sexual identity is one of the most extensively structured by life stage

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%