PSYCH 3AC3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Heterosexuality, Casual Sex, Gender Role
8 Dec 2015
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[hyde & durik], beyond artificial, sex-linked distinctions to conceptualize. Female sexuality [andersen, cyranowski & aarestad] & nature, culture, and. Explanations of erotic plasticity [baumeister, catanese, campbell & tice] Gender differences in erotic plasticity evolutionary or. Baumeister argued that there are gender differences in erotic plasticity, meaning that women are more influenced by cultural and social factors than men are: he attributed the gender difference in erotic plasticity to. Greater attitude-behaviour correlations for men than for women. Men"s greater attitude-behaviour consistency indicates that, in matters of sexuality, men do what they want to and what they believe in. Women often do not precisely because of men"s influence on them. Therefore, women with the most education (graduate degrees) are nearly equal in power (including interpersonal power, self- confidence, and knowledge) perhaps even equal to men. Women who are the least educated have the least power in relation.
