GENDER DIFFERENCES IN SEXUAL ATTITUDES:
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Gender & Society
- Vol. 2 (1) , 103-114
- https://doi.org/10.1177/089124388002001008
Abstract
This article reevaluates research on gender differences in sexual attitudes, a literature characterized by misuse of attitude scales and misinterpretation of those gender differences that are obtained. A study by Hendrick, Hendrick, Slapion-Foote, and Foote (1985) is used to illustrate these pitfalls. The gender differences in sexual attitudes obtained in this study, characterized by Hendrick et al. as indicative of women's greater sexual conservatism, are interpreted here as reflections of the different social structural positions of women and men.Keywords
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