{"id":1873,"date":"2019-01-15T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2019-01-13T12:13:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T18:13:43","slug":"sexual-double-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2019\/01\/15\/sexual-double-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2018: Sexual Double Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1877\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/steevithak\/32427330496\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1877\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2018\/02\/32427330496_2f983320d9_z-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2018\/02\/32427330496_2f983320d9_z-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2018\/02\/32427330496_2f983320d9_z-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2018\/02\/32427330496_2f983320d9_z.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Steve Rainwater, Flickr CC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Originally posted February 26, 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Justin Timberlake&#8217;s recent performance at the Super Bowl Halftime Show wasn&#8217;t his first. Who can forget the now infamous \u201cwardrobe malfunction,\u201d when Timberlake tore Janet Jackson\u2019s clothing, exposing her breast to millions across the United States? Jackson was subsequently blacklisted from the mainstream entertainment industry, while Timberlake\u2019s career continued to flourish. To illustrate the gendered and racial double standards in this case, Black Twitter created the hashtag #JanetJacksonAppreciationDay. Yet, the music industry is not unique. Despite significant progress since the sexual revolution, research shows that sexual double standards persist between women and girls, and men and boys. <\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Women and girls experience social stigma for premarital sexual activity, having multiple sexual partners, and even participating in non-physical interactions like sexting. Men and boys, conversely, encounter praise for engaging in similar (hetero)sexual conduct. For example, one study showed peers were <em>less likely<\/em> to accept adolescent girls with a high number of sexual partners, but\u00a0<em>more likely<\/em>\u00a0to accept boys with several sexual partners. At the same time, boys who failed to engage in multiple sexual \u2018conquests\u2019 endure stigma from peers. So, both sexually permissive girls and sexually inactive boys face social consequences for not following heterosexual gender roles.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.la.psu.edu\/people\/dak27\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Derek A. Kreager<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.la.psu.edu\/people\/jus25\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremy Staff<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 2009. \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4256532\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sexual Double Standard and Adolescent Peer Acceptance<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d <em>Social Psychology Quarterly<\/em> 72(2): 143-164.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/iris.ucl.ac.uk\/iris\/browse\/profile?upi=JLRIN58\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jessica Ringrose<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brighton.ac.uk\/staff\/laura-harvey.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laura Harvey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city.ac.uk\/people\/academics\/rosalind-gill\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rosalind Gill<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/media-and-communications\/people\/academic-staff\/sonia-livingstone\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sonia Livingstone<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 2013. \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/1464700113499853\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teen Girls, Sexual Double Standards and \u2018Sexting\u2019: Gendered Value in Digital Image Exchange<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feminist Theory<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 14(3): 305-323.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Women who engage in casual sexual activity like hookups outside of a committed relationship, are often judged more harshly and called derogatory names like \u2018ho\u2019 and \u2018slut.\u2019 One study participant noted, \u201cGuys, they can go around and have sex with a number of girls and they&#8217;re not called anything\u201d (Hamilton and Armstrong, p. 598). Both women and men, however, may encounter negative attitudes for hooking up. According to one study, almost 50 percent of college-aged respondents indicated that they lost respect for women and men that engage in a lot of casual sex. However, men were still more likely to only stigmatize women for engaging in casual sex.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty2.ucmerced.edu\/lhamilton2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laura Hamilton<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/elizabetharmstrong\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elizabeth Armstrong<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 2009. \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/0891243209345829\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood: Double Binds and Flawed Options<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d Gender &amp; Society<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 23(5): 589-616.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sociology.msstate.edu\/people\/rachel-allison\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rachel Allison<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/soc.uic.edu\/sociology\/people\/faculty\/brisman\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barbara J. Risman<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 2013. \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0049089X13000665\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Double Standard for \u2018Hooking Up\u2019: How Far Have We Come Toward Gender Equality<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social Science Research<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 42(5): 1191-1206.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted February 26, 2018. Justin Timberlake&#8217;s recent performance at the Super Bowl Halftime Show wasn&#8217;t his first. Who can forget the now infamous \u201cwardrobe malfunction,\u201d when Timberlake tore Janet Jackson\u2019s clothing, exposing her breast to millions across the United States? Jackson was subsequently blacklisted from the mainstream entertainment industry, while Timberlake\u2019s career continued to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,55,13,14],"tags":[38543,103477,38545,2836,96220,38541,38542,120,88829,103481,103479,40390,176,1969],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-gender","category-inequality","category-race","tag-culture","tag-double-standard","tag-gender","tag-heterosexuality","tag-hookup","tag-inequality","tag-race","tag-sex","tag-sexual-activity","tag-sexual-behavior","tag-sexual-culture","tag-sexual-double-standard","tag-sexuality","tag-stigma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}