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Understanding Sexuality

Ideal Date?

Sexual Scripts

  • Blueprint or road map for sexual behavior

Difference Between Sexual Scripts and Gender Roles?

  • Specific directives about sexual behavior vs. general behavior related to one’s gender

Sexual Ambiguities

  • Confusion, not knowing how to behave or what one’s role is
  • Examples?

Who Should Open Your Car Door?

Who Should Pay?

Kiss (Or More) on the First Date?

Double Standard

  • Something applied more leniently to one group than to another
  • Examples?

Examples of Double Standards

  • Teenage boys can stay out later than teenage girls
  • It is permissible for teenage boys to engage in premarital sex, but not girls

Older Women Not Usually With Younger Men

  • Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher

But, Men Can Be With Younger Women

  • Hugh Hefner…

Old Double Standard

  • Males go to college, but not females, b/c women will get married and men need the degree to support their families
  • Today more women in college than men!

Re: Double Standards

  • While generally condemned in the abstract, they are also very common
  • Most people recognize double standards, say they are not right, but continue or support them in their own families

Differences in Culturally Prescribed Scripts

  • Some cultures try and regulate dating behavior
  • Chaperones to arranged marriages
  • Conflict when these cultural norms contrast with U.S. dating scripts

Sources of Learning Sexual Scripts

  • Who teaches us our sexual scripts?
  • Parents
  • Peers
  • School
  • Media
  • Religion
  • Etc.

Traditional Sexual Scripts

Examples of Traditional
Sexual Scripts

  • Men ask women out
  • Men pick up the woman, men drive the car, men select the restaurant, men order for women
  • Men pay for the date
  • Men should want/expect sex
  • Men initiate sex and establish what should happen

Contemporary Sexual Scripts

Examples of Contemporary
Sexual Scripts

  • Men or women can ask each other out
  • Men or women can pick up each other, either can drive the car, either can select the restaurant, each can order their own food!
  • Either can pay or go “Dutch”
  • Either can want/expect sex or not
  • Either can initiate sex and establish what should happen

Sexual Scripts for Homosexuals, Bisexuals

  • Same or similar scripts

Sexual Scripts for People with Physical Disabilities

Sexual Scripts for the Elderly

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor with Her Husband John and Pres. Bush

  • First woman Supreme Court Justice appointed by Pres. Reagan in 1981
  • Married in 1952; John diagnosed w/ Alzheimer’s in 1990.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice
From 1981-2006

Sexual Responsibility as a Sexual Script & Double Standard

  • Who’s responsibility is it?