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Tyndale Maticka E - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Casual Sex on spring break: intentions and behaviors of Canadian students.
Journal of Sex Research, 1998Co-Authors: Tyndale Maticka EAbstract:Although numerous studies have been conducted on the Sexual behavior of young people there is little research on Sexual behavior occurring in specific contexts. One context that has been ignored by researchers is the North American spring break holiday a one-week break in the school calendar in late February or early March. Approximately one million U.S. students participate in some form of spring break vacation. Spring break vacations are also popular among Canadians with thousands of students heading to popular vacation spots. Mewhinney Herold and Maticka-Tyndale using focus groups and interviews with Canadian students who had traveled to Florida for spring break found the key elements of a spring break vacation to include a group holiday with friends traveling and rooming together a perpetual party atmosphere high alcohol consumption Sexually suggestive contests and displays and the perception that Casual Sex is common. Overall there is the perception that Sexual norms are far more permissive on spring break vacation than at home providing an atmosphere of greater Sexual freedom and the opportunity for engaging in new Sexual experiences. Smeaton and Josiam reported similar findings from their survey of U.S. students on spring break vacation in Panama City Beach Florida. (excerpt)
Dawn Mewhinney - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Predicting Intentions to Engage in Casual Sex
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 1998Co-Authors: Edward S. Herold, Eleanor Maticka-tyndale, Dawn MewhinneyAbstract:The objective of this study was to test the usefulness of the Triandis model of interpersonal behavior for explaining the formation of intentions to engage in Casual Sex (i.e. the likelihood that the respondent would, when they were out to have a good time, have Sex with someone he or she had just met). Data were collected from 305 university students (243 female, 62 male). The Triandis model explained 44 percent of the variance in Casual Sex intentions. The strongest influences on intentions to engage in Casual Sex were personal standards, situational expectations and previous Casual Sex experience. Also, peer endorsement of Casual Sex was significant for men. The results indicate that the Triandis multivariate model is very effective in explaining Sexual intentions. Hopefully, this study will encourage other researchers to investigate the under-explored topic of Casual Sex.
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Casual Sex on spring break: Intentions and behaviors of canadian students
Journal of Sex Research, 1998Co-Authors: Eleanor Maticka-tyndale, Edward S. Herold, Dawn MewhinneyAbstract:Using Triandis's theory of interpersonal behavior, we analyzed factors related to Casual Sex among Canadian university students on a spring break vacation. Two samples were obtained: 151 students completed a questionnaire before a spring break trip to Daytona Beach, Florida and 681 completed a questionnaire during or immediately following the vacation. More men than women intended to have Casual Sex but similar percentages of men (15%) and women (13%) had actually engaged in Casual Sex. In ordinary least squares regression, expectation of participation in spring break activities, social norms expressed through peer group influences, and personal attitudes explained 74% of the variance in the intentions to engage in Casual Sex. In logistic regression, intentions and participation in spring break activities correctly classified 80% of the men into those who did and did not engage in Casual Sex. Agreements formed with friends about Casual Sex and the proportion of friends who participated in coitus on spring...
Panteá Farvid - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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“You Worry, ‘cause You Want to Give a Reasonable Account of Yourself”: Gender, Identity Management, and the Discursive Positioning of “Risk” in Men’s and Women’s Talk About HeteroSexual Casual Sex
Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2018Co-Authors: Panteá Farvid, Virginia BraunAbstract:HeteroSexual Casual Sex is routinely depicted as a physically, socially, and psychologically “risky” practice. This is the case in media accounts, psychological research, and other academic work. In this article, we examine 15 men’s and 15 women’s talk about Casual Sex from a discursive psychological stance to achieve two objectives. Firstly, we confirm the categories of risk typically associated with Casual Sex but expand these to include a domain of risks related to (gendered) identities and representation. Men’s talk of risk centered on concerns about Sexual performance, whereas women’s talk centered on keeping safe from violence and Sexual coercion. The notion of a Sexual reputation was also identified as a risk and again manifested differently for men and women. While women were concerned about being deemed promiscuous, men displayed concern about the quality of their Sexual performance. Secondly, within this talk about risks of Casual Sex, the participants’ identities were identified as “at risk” and requiring careful management within the interview context. This was demonstrated by instances of: keeping masculinity intact in accounts of no erection, negotiating a responsible subject position , and crafting agency in accounts of Sexual coercion— in the participants’ talk. We argue that Casual Sex, as situated within dominant discourses of gendered heteroSexuality, is a fraught practice for both men and women and subject to the demands of identity representation within co-present interactions.
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Unpacking the “Pleasures” and “Pains” of HeteroSexual Casual Sex: Beyond Singular Understandings
Journal of sex research, 2016Co-Authors: Panteá Farvid, Virginia BraunAbstract:Discussions of heteroSexual Casual Sex are often imbued with (gendered) assumptions regarding the motives for, and drawbacks of, such a practice. The pulls of Casual Sex are often depicted as Sexual gratification and the drawbacks relayed in terms of physical risk, for example, Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)/human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission. Most of the research in this area has largely focused on undergraduate university students or "emerging adults" in North America, using primarily quantitative methodologies. We build on this work and a small but growing amount of qualitative research to unpack the complex psychoemotional and experiential dimensions of Casual Sex. We report on a critical thematic analysis of interviews with 30 ethnically diverse women and men (aged 18 to 46) in New Zealand about their experiences of heteroSexual Casual Sex to achieve two things. First, we demonstrate the complexity with which women and men discussed their Casual Sex experiences, highlighting how the practice was varied, contradictory, and multifaceted, and played in a localized way during the conversation. Second, we illustrate how this talk was governed by contemporary Western discourses of intimate relationships and the shape of (gendered) heteroSexuality. We conclude that Casual Sex research must always consider the broader sociocultural context, as well as the interpersonal context, within which any Sexual relating is situated.
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‘No girl wants to be called a slut!’: women, heteroSexual Casual Sex and the Sexual double standard
Journal of Gender Studies, 2016Co-Authors: Panteá Farvid, Virginia Braun, Casey RowneyAbstract:AbstractRecent shifts in the western cultural landscape mean that practices such as Casual Sex are contradictory terrains for women. Although permissive and liberal discourses construct women’s Casual Sex as acceptable, and even desirable, traditional discourses and a Sexual double standard, do not. This article examines 15 young women’s negotiation of the Sexual double standard in their talk of heteroSexual Casual Sex. Interviews were analysed using thematic analysis, with borrowed insights from discourse analysis, within a constructionist framework. All 15 women in this study gave accounts of an agentic and desiring Sexuality, yet talked about Casual Sex and a Sexual reputation in contradictory and contested ways. Three main themes were identified: the (un)acceptability of Casual Sex, a Sexual reputation is what other girls have, and the making of a slut. Although an enduring Sexual double standard was identified, all participants challenged its relevance and appropriateness. However, a Sexual double st...
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Casual Sex as ‘not a natural act’ and other regimes of truth about heteroSexuality
Feminism & Psychology, 2013Co-Authors: Panteá Farvid, Virginia BraunAbstract:This paper analyses online texts concerning the supposed ‘rules’ and ‘etiquette’ of heteroSexual Casual Sex, exploring how ‘ideal’ Casual Sex was constructed – as object and practice. We examine ho...
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The “Sassy Woman” and the “Performing Man”: HeteroSexual Casual Sex advice and the (re)constitution of gendered subjectivities
Feminist Media Studies, 2013Co-Authors: Panteá Farvid, Virginia BraunAbstract:Media forums that provide “Sex advice” are a rich source of (Sexual) information for heteroSexual individuals and have been critically examined for the ways in which they construct heteroSexuality (and Sexual subjectivities). The representations of (heteroSexual) Casual Sex are also prevalent across the mass media. This paper uses a Foucauldian/poststructuralist mode of discourse analysis to explore how Casual Sex “advice” in three self-help books (two aimed at women, one aimed at men), and online advice articles, constituted Casual Sex and masculine and feminine heteroSexual subjectivities. Four main (profoundly gendered) subject positions were identified in the texts: the “strategic man”; the “performing man”; the “sassy woman”; and the “vulnerable woman.” It is argued that although some alternative ways of constituting heteroSexual identities were provided (particularly for women), gender difference was not only implicated in such advice but also, at times, crudely exaggerated. The implications of thes...
Edward S. Herold - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Casual Sex and women: Measurement and motivational issues.
Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, 2000Co-Authors: Shara J. Weaver, Edward S. HeroldAbstract:Abstract Our objectives were to delineate important measurement issues involved in the study of Casual Sex and to determine women's motivations for engaging or not engaging in Casual Sex. Four different measures of Casual Sex were used with a Canadian university sample of 230 women. Thirteen percent reported having experienced Sexual intercourse with someone they had just met and 36% had experienced intercourse with someone with whom they were not in a committed relationship. More had experienced non-coital Casual Sex. Sexual health concerns were the strongest deterrents to engaging in Casual Sex. Sexual pleasure was given as the most appealing aspect of Casual Sex. Researchers need to be aware of the differing interpretations of Casual Sex when measuring this type of Sexual behavior.
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Predicting Intentions to Engage in Casual Sex
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 1998Co-Authors: Edward S. Herold, Eleanor Maticka-tyndale, Dawn MewhinneyAbstract:The objective of this study was to test the usefulness of the Triandis model of interpersonal behavior for explaining the formation of intentions to engage in Casual Sex (i.e. the likelihood that the respondent would, when they were out to have a good time, have Sex with someone he or she had just met). Data were collected from 305 university students (243 female, 62 male). The Triandis model explained 44 percent of the variance in Casual Sex intentions. The strongest influences on intentions to engage in Casual Sex were personal standards, situational expectations and previous Casual Sex experience. Also, peer endorsement of Casual Sex was significant for men. The results indicate that the Triandis multivariate model is very effective in explaining Sexual intentions. Hopefully, this study will encourage other researchers to investigate the under-explored topic of Casual Sex.
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Casual Sex on spring break: Intentions and behaviors of canadian students
Journal of Sex Research, 1998Co-Authors: Eleanor Maticka-tyndale, Edward S. Herold, Dawn MewhinneyAbstract:Using Triandis's theory of interpersonal behavior, we analyzed factors related to Casual Sex among Canadian university students on a spring break vacation. Two samples were obtained: 151 students completed a questionnaire before a spring break trip to Daytona Beach, Florida and 681 completed a questionnaire during or immediately following the vacation. More men than women intended to have Casual Sex but similar percentages of men (15%) and women (13%) had actually engaged in Casual Sex. In ordinary least squares regression, expectation of participation in spring break activities, social norms expressed through peer group influences, and personal attitudes explained 74% of the variance in the intentions to engage in Casual Sex. In logistic regression, intentions and participation in spring break activities correctly classified 80% of the men into those who did and did not engage in Casual Sex. Agreements formed with friends about Casual Sex and the proportion of friends who participated in coitus on spring...
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Gender differences in Casual Sex and AIDS prevention: A survey of dating bars
Journal of Sex Research, 1993Co-Authors: Edward S. Herold, Dawn-marie K. MewhinneyAbstract:Men (n = 83) and women (n = 86) at nine dating bars in Ontario, Canada, were surveyed to determine gender differences in self‐reported Casual Sex and AIDS‐prevention behavior. Data analysis focused on 169 bar patrons who had experienced Sexual intercourse. More men than women had some experience with Casual Sex. The women had as many Sexual partners as the men, but were less likely to anticipate having Casual Sex and reported less enjoyment and more guilt about Casual Sex than did the men. Almost all men and women had declined at least one opportunity to have Casual Sex. Women expressed greater fear of being physically harmed during a Casual encounter and were more concerned about the risks of AIDS and other Sexually transmitted diseases than were men. Although the respondents reported favourable attitudes toward condoms, many had not used condoms during their last experience with Casual Sex. Women reported stronger intentions to use condoms during Casual Sex than did men, but there was no gender differen...
Anna S. Mattila - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Binge drinking and Casual Sex on spring break
Annals of Tourism Research, 2006Co-Authors: Sevil Sönmez, Yorghos Apostolopoulos, Shiyi Yang, Anna S. MattilaAbstract:College students‘ health-risk behaviors on spring break were examined via pre-and post-surveys. Over one-half reported getting drunk on the previous vacation and stated intentions to do so again. Personal normative beliefs and situational expectations emerged as strong predictors of intentions to binge and pacts of actual bingeing. Intentions for Casual Sex were predicted by attitudes, personal normative beliefs, situational expectations, and pacts, whereas engagement in Casual Sex was predicted by intentions for and prior experience with it. The majority of students reported rarely/never using condoms during spring break. They appear to participate in riskier behaviors in the spring break environment than at home. Keywords: binge drinking, Casual Sex, spring break, theory of interpersonal behavior.