Student Bodies

Adkins, Timothy; England, Paula; Risman, Bárbara J.; Ford, Jessie V.

doi:10.1177/2329496515579763

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“…Many of these studies focus on opportunities for dating, committed relationships, and involvement in noncommitted encounters. For example, Adkins, England, Risman, and Ford (2015) used the Online College Social Life Survey to examine whether the campus sex ratios of participants' colleges or universities was associated with involvement in hooking up, number of sexual partners, intercourse during last hookup, being in a long-term relationship in college, attitudes about love and sex, and attitudes about being single. Overall, sex ratio was not associated with attitudes toward love and sex nor being single, nor was it associated with intercourse during a hookup.…”

Section: Relationship Formation and Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Decade Review of Sex and Partnering in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Olmstead

2020

J of Marriage and Family

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The formation and development of romantic relationships continues to be an important area of study among adolescent and young adult populations. Although many adolescents and young adults report having committed romantic relationship experiences, which may or may not include sexual activity, research has grown during the past decade to study a variety of sexual experiences and relationship types. Consistent with identity formation and exploration and the opportunity for experimentation, adolescents and young adults also engage in a variety of casual sexual relationships and experiences. The past decade saw a dramatic growth in the study of casual sex and in particular hooking‐up experiences. Furthermore, scholars have begun to examine more fully young adults' attitudes toward and willingness to engage in consensually nonmonogamous relationships; however, little research has examined actual involvement in consensually nonmonogamous relationships among those in young adulthood. As with previous decade reviews, ongoing attention regarding how adolescent experiences serve to inform relationships and sex during the period of young adulthood is warranted. Directions for future research are identified and discussed.

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Section: Relationship Formation and Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Decade Review of Sex and Partnering in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Olmstead

2020

J of Marriage and Family

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“…An inhabited approach to the study of women's sexual decision making as students adopts a new angle for understanding the variability of actor responses within similar organizational environments, and acknowledges the cultivation of unique campus cultures across the thousands of four-year universities in the United States. An inhabited approach to the study of campus sexual life also contributes to the broader literature on hookup cultures, which finds differences in sexual behavior and experience of hookups across individual identities (Ahrold and Meston 2010;Barrios and Lundquist 2012;Berntson et al 2014;Eaton et al 2015;Kuperberg and Padgett 2015;Owen et al 2010;Rupp et al 2014;Spell 2016), as well as in response to university structures, such as the size, racial and gendered composition of its undergraduate population, or the availability of on-campus housing (Adkins et al 2015;Allison and Risman 2014;Uecker 2015). The present study adds a different dimension to this literature in its finding that, in addition to negotiating sexual relationships in response to individual identities and structural constraints, women also frame their decisions to seek out or engage in particular sexual relationships in ways that are consistent with, or adaptive to, the broader organizational culture of a given school.…”

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Campus Sex in Context: Organizational Cultures and Women's Engagement in Sexual Relationships on Two American College Campuses

Pham

2019

Sociological Forum

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An "inhabited" approach to the study of institutions examines how organizational actors produce locally distinctive meaning in response to similar institutional forces. Adopting inhabited institutionalism to the study of campus sexual life, this study draws on interviews with 54 undergraduate women at two four-year universities in the United States-Ivy U and State U-to show campus cultures unique to a university inform women's decisions to engage in hookups and/or relationships. For women attending Ivy U, an elite institution where pressure to succeed is palpable, both hookups and long-distance relationships alike are posited as advantageous for the time-crunched, preprofessional student. At State U, a public school with a party reputation, women explain their engagement in hookups as part of the "fun" of college life, while women seeking or involved in committed relationships are obligated to negotiate the effects of the party culture in their partnerships. This study challenges the notion of a monolithic sexual culture across university settings by showing how campus cultures cultivated at the local level create unique organizational conditions within which undergraduate women forge and explain their engagement in hookups and relationships alike.

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“…When it comes to female-biased sex ratios, Guttentag and Secord predict a devaluation of women in society and the relegation of women as mere sex objects. Several studies suggest that men may a higher preference for short-term relationships and uncommitted sex in places where there is a more female-biased ASR, including among US college students (Adkins et al, 2015 ), in US cities (Kruger & Schlemmer, 2009 ) and in rural southwestern Guyana (Schacht & Borgerhoff Mulder, 2015 ). However, gender norms can temper this effect.…”

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Sex ratios and gender norms: why both are needed to understand sexual conflict in humans

Hagen,

Scelza

2024

Evolut. Hum. Sci.

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Sexual conflict theory has been successfully applied to predict how in non-human animal populations, sex ratios can lead to conflicting reproductive interests of females and males and affect their bargaining positions in resolving such conflicts of interests. Recently this theory has been extended to understand the resolution of sexual conflict in humans, but with mixed success. We argue that an underappreciation of the complex relationship between gender norms and sex ratios has hampered a successful understanding of sexual conflict in humans. In this paper, we review and expand upon existing theory to increase its applicability to humans, where gender norms regulate sex ratio-effects on sexual conflict. Gender norms constrain who is on the marriage market, how they are valued, and may affect reproductive decision-making power. Gender norms can also directly affect sex ratios, and we hypothesize that they structure how individuals respond to market value gained or lost through biased sex ratios. Importantly, gender norms are in part a product of women's and men's sometimes conflicting reproductive interests, but these norms are also subject to other evolutionary processes. An integration of sexual conflict theory and cultural evolutionary theory is required to allow for a full understanding of sexual conflict in humans.

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Student Bodies

Cited by 25 publications

References 20 publications

A Decade Review of Sex and Partnering in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

A Decade Review of Sex and Partnering in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Campus Sex in Context: Organizational Cultures and Women's Engagement in Sexual Relationships on Two American College Campuses

Sex ratios and gender norms: why both are needed to understand sexual conflict in humans

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