Pub Date : 2026-01-13DOI: 10.1007/s10508-025-03358-1
Yijia Dong,Xijing Wang,Shuning Pan,Lei Cheng
While various kinds of relationships other than romantic ones exist between men and women in modern society, some individuals tend to simply interpret ambiguous female-male interactions as romantic in nature, which is referred to as romantic interpretation bias (RIB). In this research, we examined the effect of self-objectification on RIB among heterosexual women. Our findings from four studies (N = 861), including both cross-sectional surveys (Study 1) and fully controlled experiments (Studies 2, 3A and 3B), consistently showed that women with a higher level of self-objectification exhibited a higher level of RIB when interpreting ambiguous cross-sex interactions. Additionally, this effect could be explained by an increased sense of relationship contingency (Studies 2 and 3B). Importantly, the association between self-objectification and RIB was not only demonstrated in interpreting women's own ambiguous interactions with men (Studies 1 and 2) but also in interpreting other women's cross-sex interactions (Studies 3A and 3B). The implications of these findings are discussed.
{"title":"Love Through a Distorted Lens: The Role of Self-Objectification in Interpreting Ambiguous Female-Male Interactions as Romantic among Women.","authors":"Yijia Dong,Xijing Wang,Shuning Pan,Lei Cheng","doi":"10.1007/s10508-025-03358-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-025-03358-1","url":null,"abstract":"While various kinds of relationships other than romantic ones exist between men and women in modern society, some individuals tend to simply interpret ambiguous female-male interactions as romantic in nature, which is referred to as romantic interpretation bias (RIB). In this research, we examined the effect of self-objectification on RIB among heterosexual women. Our findings from four studies (N = 861), including both cross-sectional surveys (Study 1) and fully controlled experiments (Studies 2, 3A and 3B), consistently showed that women with a higher level of self-objectification exhibited a higher level of RIB when interpreting ambiguous cross-sex interactions. Additionally, this effect could be explained by an increased sense of relationship contingency (Studies 2 and 3B). Importantly, the association between self-objectification and RIB was not only demonstrated in interpreting women's own ambiguous interactions with men (Studies 1 and 2) but also in interpreting other women's cross-sex interactions (Studies 3A and 3B). The implications of these findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":8327,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Sexual Behavior","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145961273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-13DOI: 10.1007/s10508-025-03288-y
Gavin S Vance,Virgil Zeigler-Hill,Madeleine K Meehan,Todd K Shackelford
Men's use of internet pornography has been widely studied; however, the frequency with which men use different genres of pornography, and the individual differences associated with the use of different genres of pornography, has received less attention. The aim of the present research was to determine whether men's sociosexual orientation and personality traits were associated with use of different genres of internet pornography. Across three studies, men were asked to self-report the frequency with which they have used each genre of pornography (Study 1; n = 126), presented with video thumbnails representing the various genres of pornography and asked to self-report their interest in using each genre (Study 2; n = 166), and given brief descriptions for each genre and asked to report their interest in using each genre (Study 3; n = 169). These associations were examined using men's self-reported sociosexual orientation, personality traits, and use of four broad genres of pornography. Results indicated that aspects of men's sociosexual orientation and personality were correlated with men's use of various genres of pornography. Regression analyses revealed that aspects of men's sociosexual orientation and personality were uniquely predictive of their use of group sex pornography (which depicts cues to high levels of sperm competition), as well as female-specific and paraphilic pornography. Discussion considers the potential evolutionary psychological implications of these findings, as well as limitations and directions for future studies of pornography use.
{"title":"The Associations That Sociosexual Orientation and Personality Traits Have with Men's Preferences for Different Genres of Pornography.","authors":"Gavin S Vance,Virgil Zeigler-Hill,Madeleine K Meehan,Todd K Shackelford","doi":"10.1007/s10508-025-03288-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-025-03288-y","url":null,"abstract":"Men's use of internet pornography has been widely studied; however, the frequency with which men use different genres of pornography, and the individual differences associated with the use of different genres of pornography, has received less attention. The aim of the present research was to determine whether men's sociosexual orientation and personality traits were associated with use of different genres of internet pornography. Across three studies, men were asked to self-report the frequency with which they have used each genre of pornography (Study 1; n = 126), presented with video thumbnails representing the various genres of pornography and asked to self-report their interest in using each genre (Study 2; n = 166), and given brief descriptions for each genre and asked to report their interest in using each genre (Study 3; n = 169). These associations were examined using men's self-reported sociosexual orientation, personality traits, and use of four broad genres of pornography. Results indicated that aspects of men's sociosexual orientation and personality were correlated with men's use of various genres of pornography. Regression analyses revealed that aspects of men's sociosexual orientation and personality were uniquely predictive of their use of group sex pornography (which depicts cues to high levels of sperm competition), as well as female-specific and paraphilic pornography. Discussion considers the potential evolutionary psychological implications of these findings, as well as limitations and directions for future studies of pornography use.","PeriodicalId":8327,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Sexual Behavior","volume":"214 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145956186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-12DOI: 10.1007/s10508-025-03326-9
Beatriz Navarro, Pilar Soria, Beatriz Moreno, Marta Nieto
{"title":"Effectiveness of a Psychosexual Group Intervention to Treat Problems of Sexual Desire in Women with Cancer: An Experimental Study","authors":"Beatriz Navarro, Pilar Soria, Beatriz Moreno, Marta Nieto","doi":"10.1007/s10508-025-03326-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-025-03326-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8327,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Sexual Behavior","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145955049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-08DOI: 10.1007/s10508-025-03320-1
Lijuan Xiao, Baolin Li, Fang Wang
This research explored how laywomen perceive and prioritize the functions of physical attractiveness, with particular attention to how sociocultural beliefs and structural inequality, such as gender earnings disparities, shape these views. Study 1 employed a qualitative approach to examine women's beliefs from both third-person (Study 1a) and first-person (Study 1b) perspectives. Most participants viewed attractiveness as a valuable asset across domains such as mate selection, employment, and social relationships, while a minority expressed more limited or skeptical views, often describing themselves as having average attractiveness. Study 2 used an experimental design to test how women prioritize the mating versus job-hunting functions of attractiveness when exposed to high or low gender earnings inequality. Results showed that while attractiveness was generally seen as beneficial, prioritization patterns depended on traditional gender ideology. Women with weaker traditional beliefs were more likely to emphasize the labor market utility of attractiveness, especially under high gender inequality. In contrast, women with stronger traditional beliefs showed no clear preference. These findings suggest that women's instrumental use of appearance is shaped by sociocultural beliefs and structural inequality.
{"title":"Beauty Is Currency: Laywomen's Perceptions of the Social and Instrumental Functions of Physical Attractiveness.","authors":"Lijuan Xiao, Baolin Li, Fang Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10508-025-03320-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-025-03320-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This research explored how laywomen perceive and prioritize the functions of physical attractiveness, with particular attention to how sociocultural beliefs and structural inequality, such as gender earnings disparities, shape these views. Study 1 employed a qualitative approach to examine women's beliefs from both third-person (Study 1a) and first-person (Study 1b) perspectives. Most participants viewed attractiveness as a valuable asset across domains such as mate selection, employment, and social relationships, while a minority expressed more limited or skeptical views, often describing themselves as having average attractiveness. Study 2 used an experimental design to test how women prioritize the mating versus job-hunting functions of attractiveness when exposed to high or low gender earnings inequality. Results showed that while attractiveness was generally seen as beneficial, prioritization patterns depended on traditional gender ideology. Women with weaker traditional beliefs were more likely to emphasize the labor market utility of attractiveness, especially under high gender inequality. In contrast, women with stronger traditional beliefs showed no clear preference. These findings suggest that women's instrumental use of appearance is shaped by sociocultural beliefs and structural inequality.</p>","PeriodicalId":8327,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Sexual Behavior","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145931939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-07DOI: 10.1007/s10508-025-03351-8
Nancy Rodríguez-Vázquez, María Guadalupe Moreno-Monsiváis, Jorge Zamarripa, José Luis Hernández-Torres
The objective of the study was to test a structural equation model in which sexual communication, life goals, basic psychological needs, and self-determined motivation were incorporated in order to explain their effect on sexual behavior to prevent adolescent pregnancy. This research was conducted with a sample of 620 Mexican adolescents of both sexes. The results of the model showed satisfactory goodness-of-fit indexes and it was determined that sexual communication with their mother predicted their intrinsic life goals. Sexual communication with friends predicted life goals and the satisfaction of basic psychological needs, and self-determined motivation decreased. Sexual communication with the partner increased basic psychological needs satisfaction. The greater basic psychological needs satisfaction, the greater self-determined motivation. Self-determined motivation can increase sexual behaviors to prevent pregnancy.
{"title":"Model Based on Self-Determination Theory for Sexual Behavior to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy.","authors":"Nancy Rodríguez-Vázquez, María Guadalupe Moreno-Monsiváis, Jorge Zamarripa, José Luis Hernández-Torres","doi":"10.1007/s10508-025-03351-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10508-025-03351-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The objective of the study was to test a structural equation model in which sexual communication, life goals, basic psychological needs, and self-determined motivation were incorporated in order to explain their effect on sexual behavior to prevent adolescent pregnancy. This research was conducted with a sample of 620 Mexican adolescents of both sexes. The results of the model showed satisfactory goodness-of-fit indexes and it was determined that sexual communication with their mother predicted their intrinsic life goals. Sexual communication with friends predicted life goals and the satisfaction of basic psychological needs, and self-determined motivation decreased. Sexual communication with the partner increased basic psychological needs satisfaction. The greater basic psychological needs satisfaction, the greater self-determined motivation. Self-determined motivation can increase sexual behaviors to prevent pregnancy.</p>","PeriodicalId":8327,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Sexual Behavior","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145916660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-06DOI: 10.1007/s10508-025-03344-7
Domenic P Roberto,Marina Morris,Melissa M McDonald
Sexual rape fantasies are commonly reported among women. Rape fantasies can range anywhere from violent, forceful encounters to seduction fantasies where the fantasizer is coerced by an attractive partner. Although rape fantasies often contain aversive content, research tends to broadly conceptualize sexual fantasy as a universally pleasurable experience. The current research explored the possible function of aversive rape fantasy in women, hypothesizing that such fantasies are part of the output of a threat management system for rape avoidance. The fantasy is argued to function as a form of mental rehearsal wherein more realistic and forceful rape fantasies provide the fantasizer a low-cost, high-reward method for simulating and preparing for a potential future attack. Results of an online survey study indicated that women's fear of rape was positively associated with the presence of aversiveness in rape fantasies, but not other types of fantasies, when controlling for the eroticism of women's rape fantasies and other types of fearfulness. Women's history of sexual assault was also positively associated with the aversiveness of their rape fantasies-a relationship that was mediated by women's fear of rape. These findings are consistent with the threat management system model and may imply that women who are more vulnerable to victimization are more fearful of rape and therefore engage in mental rehearsal of possible rape encounters through aversive rape fantasies as a means of defensive vigilance against potential future assaults.
{"title":"A Threat Management Approach to Explaining Women's Aversive Rape Fantasies.","authors":"Domenic P Roberto,Marina Morris,Melissa M McDonald","doi":"10.1007/s10508-025-03344-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-025-03344-7","url":null,"abstract":"Sexual rape fantasies are commonly reported among women. Rape fantasies can range anywhere from violent, forceful encounters to seduction fantasies where the fantasizer is coerced by an attractive partner. Although rape fantasies often contain aversive content, research tends to broadly conceptualize sexual fantasy as a universally pleasurable experience. The current research explored the possible function of aversive rape fantasy in women, hypothesizing that such fantasies are part of the output of a threat management system for rape avoidance. The fantasy is argued to function as a form of mental rehearsal wherein more realistic and forceful rape fantasies provide the fantasizer a low-cost, high-reward method for simulating and preparing for a potential future attack. Results of an online survey study indicated that women's fear of rape was positively associated with the presence of aversiveness in rape fantasies, but not other types of fantasies, when controlling for the eroticism of women's rape fantasies and other types of fearfulness. Women's history of sexual assault was also positively associated with the aversiveness of their rape fantasies-a relationship that was mediated by women's fear of rape. These findings are consistent with the threat management system model and may imply that women who are more vulnerable to victimization are more fearful of rape and therefore engage in mental rehearsal of possible rape encounters through aversive rape fantasies as a means of defensive vigilance against potential future assaults.","PeriodicalId":8327,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Sexual Behavior","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145907516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-04DOI: 10.1007/s10508-025-03271-7
Randi Beth Singer, Jessica Zemlak, Sara Jacobs, Natasha Crooks, Oscar Daniel Bahena, Maya Green, Susan G. Sherman, Geri Donenberg, Alicia K. Matthews, Crystal L. Patil
Reducing new HIV infections is crucial. Sex workers continue to face disparities in both HIV infection rates and inadequate prevention care. Stigma, criminalization, and financial instability hinder access to vital HIV prevention methods, including Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). Evidence-based, community-centered PrEP care may help address these issues. An evidence-based group PrEP care model, Centering PrEP (C-PrEP +), could empower communities and reduce healthcare burdens. This study explored care professionals’ perspectives on barriers and facilitators of C-PrEP + for sex workers. Using the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment (EPIS) framework, we aimed to develop a pilot implementation plan for C-PrEP + . Individual interviews were held with care professionals at a U.S. Midwestern Community Health Center serving sex workers. To reflect the diverse roles and backgrounds of participants, we interviewed 14 healthcare professionals, including care providers, patient navigators, and billing specialists. Guided by a semi-structured interview guide, we sought care providers’ views on obstacles and enablers related to prescribing PrEP and implementing group PrEP care for sex workers. Using Dedoose, we used directed content analysis to systematically explore their perspectives about C-PrEP + using predefined constructs from the EPIS framework to guide coding and interpretation. Major themes included healthcare for sex workers, challenges in standard PrEP care, perceptions of Centering PrEP, and barriers and facilitators for implementing C-PrEP + . Participants viewed group PrEP care as a means to foster patient-centered approaches and strengthen community ties, while addressing the demands of care. Thoughtful integration of C-PrEP + into clinics may be a promising strategy to improve HIV prevention for sex workers.
{"title":"Provider Perspectives on Group PrEP Care for Sex Workers: A Pre-implementation Study in a U.S. Midwestern Community Health Center","authors":"Randi Beth Singer, Jessica Zemlak, Sara Jacobs, Natasha Crooks, Oscar Daniel Bahena, Maya Green, Susan G. Sherman, Geri Donenberg, Alicia K. Matthews, Crystal L. Patil","doi":"10.1007/s10508-025-03271-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-025-03271-7","url":null,"abstract":"Reducing new HIV infections is crucial. Sex workers continue to face disparities in both HIV infection rates and inadequate prevention care. Stigma, criminalization, and financial instability hinder access to vital HIV prevention methods, including Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). Evidence-based, community-centered PrEP care may help address these issues. An evidence-based group PrEP care model, Centering PrEP (C-PrEP +), could empower communities and reduce healthcare burdens. This study explored care professionals’ perspectives on barriers and facilitators of C-PrEP + for sex workers. Using the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment (EPIS) framework, we aimed to develop a pilot implementation plan for C-PrEP + . Individual interviews were held with care professionals at a U.S. Midwestern Community Health Center serving sex workers. To reflect the diverse roles and backgrounds of participants, we interviewed 14 healthcare professionals, including care providers, patient navigators, and billing specialists. Guided by a semi-structured interview guide, we sought care providers’ views on obstacles and enablers related to prescribing PrEP and implementing group PrEP care for sex workers. Using Dedoose, we used directed content analysis to systematically explore their perspectives about C-PrEP + using predefined constructs from the EPIS framework to guide coding and interpretation. Major themes included healthcare for sex workers, challenges in standard PrEP care, perceptions of Centering PrEP, and barriers and facilitators for implementing C-PrEP + . Participants viewed group PrEP care as a means to foster patient-centered approaches and strengthen community ties, while addressing the demands of care. Thoughtful integration of C-PrEP + into clinics may be a promising strategy to improve HIV prevention for sex workers.","PeriodicalId":8327,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Sexual Behavior","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145895664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-04DOI: 10.1007/s10508-025-03400-2
Brian D. Earp, Morgan Carpenter, Sebastian Porsdam Mann
{"title":"On Whether Sex Is Binary","authors":"Brian D. Earp, Morgan Carpenter, Sebastian Porsdam Mann","doi":"10.1007/s10508-025-03400-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-025-03400-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8327,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Sexual Behavior","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145893638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-04DOI: 10.1007/s10508-025-03340-x
Jeong Eun Cheon, Young-Hoon Kim
Affection exchange theory posits that affectionate communication is crucial in fostering relational bonds and facilitating procreation. Building on this theory, this study examined whether affectionate communication is positively related to sexual satisfaction. Furthermore, considering that affectionate communication partially satisfies the need for sexual intimacy among couples, this study investigated whether affectionate exchanges compensated for infrequent sexual activity. Specifically, it assessed whether affectionate communication's frequency moderated the association between sexual frequency and sexual and marital satisfaction, such that couples engaging in frequent affectionate communication exhibit less reduction in well-being when sexual activity is infrequent. These hypotheses were tested by collecting data from 700 married individuals in South Korea. The findings revealed that affectionate communication mitigated the negative association between infrequent sexual activity and sexual and marital satisfaction. Notably, receiving affection from one's partner and expressing affection toward one's partner attenuated the association between sexual frequency and satisfaction levels. These findings underscore affectionate communication's importance in maintaining sexual and marital satisfaction, particularly in relationships characterized by lower sexual frequency.
{"title":"Compensatory Effects of Affectionate Communication in Marriages with Infrequent Sexual Activity","authors":"Jeong Eun Cheon, Young-Hoon Kim","doi":"10.1007/s10508-025-03340-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-025-03340-x","url":null,"abstract":"Affection exchange theory posits that affectionate communication is crucial in fostering relational bonds and facilitating procreation. Building on this theory, this study examined whether affectionate communication is positively related to sexual satisfaction. Furthermore, considering that affectionate communication partially satisfies the need for sexual intimacy among couples, this study investigated whether affectionate exchanges compensated for infrequent sexual activity. Specifically, it assessed whether affectionate communication's frequency moderated the association between sexual frequency and sexual and marital satisfaction, such that couples engaging in frequent affectionate communication exhibit less reduction in well-being when sexual activity is infrequent. These hypotheses were tested by collecting data from 700 married individuals in South Korea. The findings revealed that affectionate communication mitigated the negative association between infrequent sexual activity and sexual and marital satisfaction. Notably, receiving affection from one's partner and expressing affection toward one's partner attenuated the association between sexual frequency and satisfaction levels. These findings underscore affectionate communication's importance in maintaining sexual and marital satisfaction, particularly in relationships characterized by lower sexual frequency.","PeriodicalId":8327,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Sexual Behavior","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145895663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-04DOI: 10.1007/s10508-025-03325-w
Ellen Ek, Cecilia Fredlund, Sofia Hammarström
Earlier research has found that sex could be used as a means of self-injury with functions comparable to other self-injurious behaviors such as cutting or burning the skin. A suggested definition for sex as self-injury (SASI) is “a pattern of seeking sexual situations involving psychological or physical harm to themselves.” The research concerning SASI is sparse and the behavior is still in need of further understanding. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of SASI among visitors to youth clinics in Sweden and the associations with sexual risk-taking, drug and alcohol consumption, and experience of violence. The study was based on data collected through the SEXual health Identification Tool (SEXIT) at youth clinics in multiple Swedish cities. A total of 813 participants were included in the study (Median = 19 years, SD 2.52 years, 734 identified as women, 78 as men, and 1 as other). Overall, 12.30% of the participants reported experience of SASI. SASI was most strongly associated with experience of sexual harassment or assault (OR 6.22), ever being diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (OR 3.07), drug use (OR 3.02), and experience of physical and/or psychological violence (OR 2.78). In conclusion, SASI is occurring among youth clinic visitors and is associated with factors that endanger young people’s physical and psychological well-being. Healthcare professionals need to have knowledge of SASI to offer proper help and support.
{"title":"Sex as Self-Injury Among Youth Clinic Visitors in Sweden","authors":"Ellen Ek, Cecilia Fredlund, Sofia Hammarström","doi":"10.1007/s10508-025-03325-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-025-03325-w","url":null,"abstract":"Earlier research has found that sex could be used as a means of self-injury with functions comparable to other self-injurious behaviors such as cutting or burning the skin. A suggested definition for sex as self-injury (SASI) is “a pattern of seeking sexual situations involving psychological or physical harm to themselves.” The research concerning SASI is sparse and the behavior is still in need of further understanding. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of SASI among visitors to youth clinics in Sweden and the associations with sexual risk-taking, drug and alcohol consumption, and experience of violence. The study was based on data collected through the SEXual health Identification Tool (SEXIT) at youth clinics in multiple Swedish cities. A total of 813 participants were included in the study (Median = 19 years, SD 2.52 years, 734 identified as women, 78 as men, and 1 as other). Overall, 12.30% of the participants reported experience of SASI. SASI was most strongly associated with experience of sexual harassment or assault (OR 6.22), ever being diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (OR 3.07), drug use (OR 3.02), and experience of physical and/or psychological violence (OR 2.78). In conclusion, SASI is occurring among youth clinic visitors and is associated with factors that endanger young people’s physical and psychological well-being. Healthcare professionals need to have knowledge of SASI to offer proper help and support.","PeriodicalId":8327,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Sexual Behavior","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145895666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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