What is it about?
The increase in the number of sexual offences in recent years has brought with it the need to search for causes and risk factors. Sexual aggression has been associated with sexist attitudes, among which the sexual double standard could be highlighted. This attitude is defined as the different evaluation of the same sexual behaviour depending on whether it is performed by a man or a woman. The sexual double standard, which implies greater sexual freedom for men than for women, has been related to sexual aggression perpetrated by men against women and to the sexual victimization of women. However, the relationship between the different types of adherence to this attitude: man-favorable, woman-favorable, and egalitarian (which defends the equal standard for men and women) has not been studied to date. For this reason, this study published examine the effect of sex and the typologies of adherence to the sexual double standard (egalitarian, man-favorable, and woman-favorable), in two areas of sexual behaviour (sexual freedom and sexual shyness), on different dimensions of sexual victimization and aggression. The results obtained in a sample of 264 men and 452 women with 18 to 66 years old revealed that sex had a significant effect, with an increase between 21 and 27.4% of experiences of sexual victimization due to being a woman, as well as an increase of 12.4-13.9% of sexual aggression experiences due to being a man. In addition, it was observed that men with a man-favorable of the sexual double standard, both in sexual freedom and sexual shyness, reported a greater number of rape aggression against women, with an increase of 10% to the other typologies.
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Why is it important?
Given this evidence, the importance of considering the typologies of adherence to the sexual double standard in sexual aggression prevention and intervention programs is highlighted.
Perspectives
Sexual double standard significantly harm sexual health.
Dr. Juan Carlos Sierra
Universidad de Granada
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This page is a summary of: Análisis de la victimización/agresión sexual a través de
las tipologías de adhesión al doble estándar sexual en
población general, Revista Iberoamericana de Psicología y Salud, January 2021, Grupo Editorial Psicofundación,
DOI: 10.23923/j.rips.2022.01.052.
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