Proceptive and rejective strategies of U.S. and Canadian college women

Perper, Timothy; Weis, David L.

doi:10.1080/00224498709551385

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“…There is also the possibility that men perceive their initiations as beginning at the point when they start kissing or touching and women perceive their initiations as beginning at the point at which they start a more intimate form of sexual activity. Work on proceptive behavior (Perper & Weis, 1987), although dated, suggests that women, in fact, perceive initiations as occurring far earlier in the trajectory of sexual behaviors than do men.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Communicating Interest in Sex: Verbal and Nonverbal Initiation of Sexual Activity in Young Adults’ Romantic Dating Relationships

Vannier

O’Sullivan

2010

Arch Sex Behav

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Relatively little is known about the day-to-day initiation of sexual activity between young adults in committed relationships, notably the ways in which young people communicate interest in sexual activity. Sexual script theory (Simon and Gagnon, Society 22:53-60, 1984) posits that men are traditionally the initiators and women the restrictors of sexual activity early in relationships. However, research suggests that these patterns may be different for individuals in committed relationships. The current study used a diary method to examine verbal/nonverbal and indirect/direct initiation strategies, responses to initiations, and patterns between initiations and responses. Participants included 31 men and 32 women between the ages of 18 and 24 years who were involved in committed heterosexual relationships. Men initiated more frequently than did women and most initiations were nonverbal initiation (91%) rather than verbal (65%). Responses to initiations tended to match the initiators' choice of strategies, suggesting that synchrony plays an important role in initiation patterns. The findings have implications for understanding sexual communication as well as relationship and sexual satisfaction among young adults.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Communicating Interest in Sex: Verbal and Nonverbal Initiation of Sexual Activity in Young Adults’ Romantic Dating Relationships

Vannier

O’Sullivan

2010

Arch Sex Behav

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“…In almost all masculine verbal seduction strategies, men initiated conversation after the woman had signaled her interest, mostly by glancing and=or smiling at the men, granting them permission to start a conversation. It appeared that in some cases, men needed encouragement before they approached women (Cary, 1976;de Weerth & Kalma, 1995;Fisher, 1992;Kendon, 1975;McCormick & Jones, 1989;Perper, 1985;Perper & Weis, 1987).…”

Section: Verbal Seductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Heterosexual Seduction in the Urban Night Context: Behaviors and Meanings

Brak-Lamy¹

2014

The Journal of Sex Research

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This article presents an anthropological analysis of heterosexual seduction behaviors of men and women (from 18 to 65 years old, with varying civil status) who attended nightclubs located in the movida areas of Lisbon, Portugal. These behaviors were analyzed according to structure versus communitas theories. Nighttime seduction behaviors were observed and recorded in a field diary, and in-depth semistructured interviews with 60 men and 60 women were conducted. Interviews were analyzed using the thematic content analysis model. Results suggested that the communitas domain was evinced in the various seduction strategies. These courtship behaviors tended to follow a specific pattern: nonverbal seduction, visual seduction, verbal seduction, and acting-consisting of caresses, touches, and kisses. When this escalation process evoked positive responses, it generally culminated in the complete synchrony of movements between the two bodies. The seduction process encompassed both masculine and feminine initiatives: Women engaged primarily in nonverbal and visual seduction, while men appeared to orchestrate verbal courtship and acting. However, sometimes men and women did not want to seduce or be seduced because they were married (especially women) or were with their partners (especially young men) and did not want to endanger the structure domain.

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“…These are the quinque lineae amoris-the five lines of loveLook, Talk, Touch, Kiss, and Coitus (from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book X, lines 341-344; Ovid 1955Ovid , 1984, and the later Roman poet Terence; Adams 1982, p. 185). The five lines can be expanded by modern ethological methods into look, approach, talk, turn, touch, synchronize, caress, kiss, and sexual intercourse (Perper 1985;Perper and Weis 1987), meaning that the same pattern exists today as two millennia ago. The same sequence also exists in modern Japan (Perper 2005).…”

Section: Ovid and Erotic Materialitymentioning

confidence: 99%