Love at First Sex: Latina Girls' Meanings of Virginity Loss and Relationships

Garcia, Lorena

doi:10.1080/10702890903172751

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“…Across racial groups, committed relationships predicted the most positive virginity loss stories (Higgins, Trussell, Moore, & Davidson, 2010). One study of Latina women found that virginity loss was acceptable when connected to relationships defined by love and characterized by a mutual sentiment of caring (García, 2009), whereas another study found that high school freshman girls talked more positively about losing their own virginity than boys did when speaking about girls losing their virginity (Wilson, Smith, & Menn, 2013). When girls challenge these more conventional virginity narratives, they are often met with punishment and disdain; for example, reactions to women frankly selling their virginity, as in the case of Natalie Dylan (who offered to sell her virginity online to the highest bidder), were met with online hostilities and disdain (Dunn & Vik, 2014).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Methodological mishaps and slippery subjects: Stories of first sex, oral sex, and sexual trauma in qualitative sex research.

Fahs

2016

Qualitative Psychology

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Numerous assumptions-many rooted in privilege, educational status, and hegemonic power norms-are embedded in the process of collecting qualitative research on people's sexualities, particularly surrounding meaning making, language, and sexual scripts. This paper interrogates 3 moments in qualitative sex research-what I call "margins of the interview"-where the researcher and participants' meaning making around women's sexuality diverged, raising complicated questions around coconstruction of sexual subjectivity in the research setting. Drawing from interview data with a diverse community sample of 20 women (interviewed in 2014, diverse age, race, class, and sexual identities) in a large southwestern metropolitan city, I outline in detail 3 places of methodological ambiguity (or "marginalia") in the interviews. First, I examine how questions about "first sex" evoke complicated webs of stories that center on early sexual traumas, nonpenetrative sexual experiences, and virginity loss. Further, asking about women's "experiences with oral sex" reveals how women construct themselves as performing sexual labor via giving rather than receiving oral sex, while asking about women's worst sexual experiences either highlighted, or erased, sexual violence. Implications for the impact of how sex researchers-wedged between paradigms-choose to word questions, along with how women push and rewrite typical sexual scripts in qualitative research, are discussed. Ultimately, the slippage between the assumed and the experienced also moves us away from thinking about qualitative research in terms of validity and instead highlights the positive, puzzling, and difficult aspects of the "marginalia" instead.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Methodological mishaps and slippery subjects: Stories of first sex, oral sex, and sexual trauma in qualitative sex research.

Fahs

2016

Qualitative Psychology

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“…It is possible that Mexican young people’s sexuality is increasingly shaped by values from the USA and other western nations, in which sex is more acceptable in general, although non-relationship sex is seen as particularly problematic for women (Crawford and Popp 2008). A more recent qualitative study of Latina girls in the USA found that unlike women from their mother’s generation, girls felt that the loss of virginity was acceptable in contexts in which there were feelings of love or caring with a partner (García 2009). Similarly, Mexican young people may be adopting attitudes about sexual behaviour that are increasingly influenced by romantic rather than traditional values (Gutman 1996).…”

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Positive and negative perceived consequences of first intercourse among middle and high school students in Puebla, Mexico

Vasilenko

Espinosa‐Hernández

Halgunseth

2015

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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Relatively little is known about young people’s interpretations of sexual behaviour in Latin America. In this study, we examine the most commonly perceived consequences of first sexual intercourse among Mexican middle and high school students, how perceived consequences differ by gender, and factors that may predict experiencing more positive or negative consequences. Sexually active Mexican students aged 12–19 years (N = 268) reported whether they had experienced each of 19 consequences following first intercourse. Both positive consequences, such as physical satisfaction and closeness to partner, and negative consequences, such as worry about STDs and pregnancy, were common. Sex with a non-relationship partner was associated with fewer positive and more negative consequences, with the effect for positive consequences being stronger for young women. Pressure to have sex was associated with fewer positive consequences of first intercourse, and pressure to remain a virgin was associated with more positive and negative consequences. These findings suggest that young people often report mixed feelings about their first sexual intercourse, and that relationship context and sexual socialisation influence their perceptions of the event.

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“…Additionally, the first sexual experience is still romanticized and seen as a symbol of true love (García, 2009;Holland, Ramazanoglu, & Thomson, 1996). Since it has such significant meaning, it intensifies the anxieties of males and females.…”

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Teaching sexual matters in Taiwan: the analytical framework for popular culture and youth sexuality education

Yang

2013

Asia Pacific Journal of Education

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Although most teachers realize the potential of using popular culture within the sexuality education classroom, incorporating it successfully is complex. Especially, how can teachers critically analyse the ideology contained in popular culture without lapsing into moralizing and design motivating activities? For teachers in Taiwan, whose training has involved abstinence-only sex education and discourse, avoiding such activities is an even greater challenge. This study attempts to present an analytical framework for development students' sexual literacy through popular culture to respond to these issues. The framework for using popular culture sexual literacy as a pedagogical tool enables teachers to shift from analysing popular culture itself to understanding the lessons regarding sexuality and gender that students derive from it. Using this analytic framework, teachers can establish an interesting and meaningful method to discuss sex and intimacy relationship issues and facilitate students' inquiry into the multiple understanding of sexuality and gender; especially in discussing and understanding the desire of adolescent girls. Through this framework, the true needs of students in sexuality education can be addressed. This pedagogical approach also relates the course content to the practical experiences of young students and alters student opinions on formal sexual education.

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Love at First Sex: Latina Girls' Meanings of Virginity Loss and Relationships

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

Methodological mishaps and slippery subjects: Stories of first sex, oral sex, and sexual trauma in qualitative sex research.

Methodological mishaps and slippery subjects: Stories of first sex, oral sex, and sexual trauma in qualitative sex research.

Positive and negative perceived consequences of first intercourse among middle and high school students in Puebla, Mexico

Teaching sexual matters in Taiwan: the analytical framework for popular culture and youth sexuality education

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