SOC 152A Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Casual Sex, System On A Chip, Softcore Pornography
●US sexual patterns:
○Nonmarital sex
○Cohabitation
○Marriage
○Etc.
●Nonmarital sex
○US HS students having had vaginal sex (national data)
■54% → 41%
○More than 4 partners in lifetime
■1991 2009
■18.7% 13.8%
○Males are more likely than females to approve of casual sex w minimal
commitment
○Females are more likely to be seeking sex in the context of love
○Many people still hunger today for romance (R )
○Partners feel more pleasure with 1rst sex in a serious relationship than a casual
relationship
○Pleasure score
■Casual - males 4.87 - females 2.6
■Serious -male 5.21 - female 3.17
○But most say romance disappears too soon in their relationship
○Males are more likely than females to say they have romance with a partner
○females have more idealized definitions of romance, thus more likely to get
disappointed
○Females get more romance socializations
■Childhood
●Dolls → dreaming of happy home
●Family sitcoms = nice romance
●Girls sheltered from harsh realities
●Disney - princesses
○Females get more romantic socializations
■Adulthood
●Females fantasies = very romantic
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