{"id":6048,"date":"2016-12-21T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=6048"},"modified":"2016-12-20T11:05:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:05:55","slug":"the-persistence-of-sexual-double-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2016\/12\/21\/the-persistence-of-sexual-double-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Persistence of Sexual Double Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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American beliefs about how much sex women should have are much more liberal than in the past, but do women still face a double standard compared with men? <\/span><\/p>\n

A recent <\/span>article<\/span><\/a> from Broadly<\/em> uses social science research to find the answer. Among others, a <\/span>study<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>was conducted by sociologists <\/span>Rachel Allison <\/span><\/a>and <\/span>Barbara Risman<\/span><\/a> on college students\u2019 attitudes about “hooking up.” They found that 12% of students still believe in the double standard that women should have less sexual partners men, though most students held men and women to the same standards. Interestingly, they also found that about the same percentage — but mostly women — subscribed to a reversed double standard where they judged <\/span>men <\/span><\/i>more negatively\u00a0<\/span>for having multiple sexual partners, but not women. <\/span><\/p>\n

Psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams<\/a>\u00a0notes that “underlying the different double standards, there’s actually just one double standard: ‘It’s OK for me but not for you.'” Even so, in another study by psychologist Daniel Jones<\/a>, women were more willing to overlook a man’s extensive sexual history. Jones concludes that “<\/span>this type of sexist discourse makes women, but not men, permanently accountable for past sexual decisions.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American beliefs about how much sex women should have are much more liberal than in the past, but do women still face a double standard compared with men? A recent article from Broadly uses social science research to find the answer. Among others, a study\u00a0was conducted by sociologists Rachel Allison and Barbara Risman on college […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,55,13],"tags":[39112,39114,39110,40390],"class_list":["post-6048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-gender","category-inequality","tag-culture","tag-gender","tag-inequality","tag-sexual-double-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6052,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions\/6052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}