Heterosexual Deviance Flashcards
Phone sex
Usually women who sell sexual fantasies
Keep callers on phone to maximize profits
Unlikely to meet with callers, fear of getting beaten raped or killed
Phone sex callers: Quick sex callers:
Majority, don’t stay on for long, brief convo
ask operator to perform a fast sex act
Phone sex callers: Psychos
violent and angry callers, like to talk about beating or raping women
Phone sex callers: Lonely, lovelorn callers
call the same operator, propose marriage and make future plans with her
Phone sex callers: Sexually possessive callers
infatuated with a particular operator and get jealous of her sexual involvement with other men
Phone sex callers: likable callers
usually well spoken and educated, claim they call “only out of curiosity”
Adult entertainment
US world leading, release 150 titles a week (porn)
strip clubs bring in more than opera, ballet, jazz and classical music performances combined
Porn is likely to be harmful if it portrays sexual violence but harmless if it merely shows nudity or non-violent sex acts
Swingers
20% have cheated
2% engaged in swinging
Middle class white (25-45 old)
Prejudice towards racial and ethnic minorities
Protestant (lower rate of church attendance)
Unhappy childhoods
more likely to have been divorced before, began dating earlier and had sex at an earlier age
Teenagers and sex
most Americans don’t consider premarital sex to be devious anymore
Teens who have sex ealier have more sexual partners and more likely to have one-night stands
Effects of sex education?
teens are now “technical virgins” who engage in oral sex which is not considered real sex in their eyes
Extramarital affairs
25% of men and 17% of women have admitted to 1 affair
Most men wish at one time or another to have an extramarital affair
those who commit in extramarital affairs are less sexually active
men tend to cheat more and attach little significance to affair
extra info:
1 reason for divorce is lack of communication
should communicate face to face 15min per day
younger you are more likely to cheat
5% of children product of infidelity
75% of people who cheat have friends who cheat