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Article: Differences and similarities in men's and women's sexual self-schemas.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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Does gender influence how we think about our sexual selves? From Freud's early connections between anatomy and sexuality to Daryl Bem's (2000) "exotic becomes erotic" theory, gender has been consistently implicated in theories of sexuality. Gender role scripts no doubt influence sexual behavior, yet one's own sense of gendered self-concept only weakly predicts sexual behavior (e.g., Garcia, 1999; Garcia & Carrigan, 1998; Whitley, 1988). It seems gender roles predict sexual behavior, but individuals may not always internalize social roles into their self-concepts. To what extent do men and women internalize social roles into their sexual sense of self?
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