A cross-national examination of sexual desire: The roles of ‘gendered cultural scripts’ and ‘sexual pleasure’ in predicting heterosexual women's desire for sex
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A cross-national examination of sexual desire: The roles of ‘gendered cultural scripts’ and ‘sexual pleasure’ in predicting heterosexual women's desire for sex. / Rubin, Jennifer; Conley, Terri; Klein, Verena; Liu, Jie ; Lehane, Christine; Dammeyer, Jesper .
in: PERS INDIV DIFFER, Jahrgang 2019, Nr. 151, 07.2019.Publikationen: SCORING: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift/Zeitung › SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz › Forschung › Begutachtung
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T1 - A cross-national examination of sexual desire: The roles of ‘gendered cultural scripts’ and ‘sexual pleasure’ in predicting heterosexual women's desire for sex
AU - Rubin, Jennifer
AU - Conley, Terri
AU - Klein, Verena
AU - Liu, Jie
AU - Lehane, Christine
AU - Dammeyer, Jesper
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - Women's low sexual desire has received a great deal of cultural and research attention. Surprisingly, pleasurewomen receive during partnered sexual encounters and sociocultural beliefs about sexual desire have largelybeen absent in the literature. The present study examined if gendered cultural scripts and pleasure from a sexualencounter predicted heterosexual women's desire for sex in four cross-national samples: United States (N=741),Canada (N=391), Germany (N=220), and Denmark (N=128). Hierarchical multiple regression results indicatethat for United States, Canadian, and German samples, anticipated pleasure and orgasm centrality weresignificant predictors of desire for sex, while endorsement of gendered cultural scripts was a significant predictorof lower desire for sex. For the Danish sample, only endorsement of gendered cultural scripts was a robustpredictor of lower desire for sex. Follow-up analyses using multilevel modeling found that the relationshipbetween the predictor variables and desire for sex was not significantly different across samples. Findingssuggest that nations may share more similarities than differences within the domain of sexual desire—heterosexualwomen that prioritize sexual pleasure and eschew gendered cultural scripts may be more likely to desiresex.
AB - Women's low sexual desire has received a great deal of cultural and research attention. Surprisingly, pleasurewomen receive during partnered sexual encounters and sociocultural beliefs about sexual desire have largelybeen absent in the literature. The present study examined if gendered cultural scripts and pleasure from a sexualencounter predicted heterosexual women's desire for sex in four cross-national samples: United States (N=741),Canada (N=391), Germany (N=220), and Denmark (N=128). Hierarchical multiple regression results indicatethat for United States, Canadian, and German samples, anticipated pleasure and orgasm centrality weresignificant predictors of desire for sex, while endorsement of gendered cultural scripts was a significant predictorof lower desire for sex. For the Danish sample, only endorsement of gendered cultural scripts was a robustpredictor of lower desire for sex. Follow-up analyses using multilevel modeling found that the relationshipbetween the predictor variables and desire for sex was not significantly different across samples. Findingssuggest that nations may share more similarities than differences within the domain of sexual desire—heterosexualwomen that prioritize sexual pleasure and eschew gendered cultural scripts may be more likely to desiresex.
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2019.07.012
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2019.07.012
M3 - SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz
VL - 2019
JO - PERS INDIV DIFFER
JF - PERS INDIV DIFFER
SN - 0191-8869
IS - 151
ER -