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This study examined and compared the affective reactions of women to their first premarital coitus in two cultures varying in sexual permissiveness: the United States and Sweden. The underlying conceptual framework was Christensen's (1969) "Theory of Relative Consequences", whic…

Researchers have begun to explore how humans discount sex; however, these evaluations have not yet extended to considering sexual acts using toys vs. sexual intercourse with another human. The current study will evaluate discounting choices between sexual acts with another human…

Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by considerable biological and psychological changes. During adolescence (which is defined by the age range of 13-24 for this study based on the participants that provided data), young people experience rapid increases in physi…

This study explored the longitudinal effects of adolescent pornography trajectories on risky sexual behavior, as well as predictors of pornography trajectories. Data was taken from Waves V-X of the Flourishing Families Project, which included a sample of 463 families. A zero-inf…