Why Humans Have Sex: Development and Psychometric Assessment of a Short-Form Version of the YSEX? Instrument

Meston, Cindy M.; Kilimnik, Chelsea D.; Freihart, Bridget K.; Buss, David M.

doi:10.1080/0092623x.2019.1654581

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“…Sexual activity is closely related to several biopsychosocial factors and contextual elements of the relationship including the type and duration of the relationship, and the partners' attachment styles (Meston and Stanton, 2017). A number of studies revealed sex differences in sexual motivation (e.g., Meston and Buss, 2007;Meston et al, 2009Meston et al, , 2019, suggesting, that women's sexual activity is primarily based on relationship-related reasons, while men are more likely to have self-focused reasons. Armstrong and Reissing (2015) studied the associations between relationship type and sexual motivation, and they found more pronounced physical motives in those who preferred casual sexual relationships, while those currently having a committed relationship showed stronger emotional motives.…”

Section: Love Styles Sociosexuality and Sexual Motivesmentioning

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Providing Sexual Companionship for Resources: Development, Validation, and Personality Correlates of the Acceptance of Sugar Relationships in Young Women and Men Scale (ASR-YWMS)

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A sugar relationship is a transactional sexual relationship in which a younger partner (sugar baby/boy) offers companionship and sexual services to a much older partner (sugar daddy/mommy) in return for material compensation. One aim of the present study was to develop an attitude scale assessing young women's and men's acceptance of sugar relationships. Another aim was to explore the possible associations of the acceptance of sugar relationships with psychological functioning in an intimate partner relationship and in a sexual relationship and with certain socially undesirable personality traits. Two online studies were conducted with a total number of 2052 participants (1879 women; age = 18-28 years). The results show that the Acceptance of Sugar Relationships in Young Women and Men Scale (ASR-YWMS) is a reliable and valid measure of young people's attitude toward sugar relationships. The studies revealed that young women's and men's accepting attitude toward sugar relationships was positively associated with unrestricted sociosexuality, a game-playing love style (Ludus), selffocused sexual motivation (Study 1; N = 319; 272 women and 47 men), and with socially undesirable traits such as Machiavellianism, subclinical psychopathy, and a borderline personality organization (Study 2; N = 1733; 1607 women and 126 men). These findings suggest that a relatively high level of acceptance of sugar relationships is part of a mating strategy focused on opportunities of maximizing resources. This utilitarian, risktaking and exploitative attitude is characteristic to a fast life history strategy, and it is a fundamental organizing principle of psychological and sexual functioning in intimate partner relationships.

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Section: Love Styles Sociosexuality and Sexual Motivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Providing Sexual Companionship for Resources: Development, Validation, and Personality Correlates of the Acceptance of Sugar Relationships in Young Women and Men Scale (ASR-YWMS)

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“…Among the benefits of a satisfying sex life mentioned are experiencing pleasure, relieving sexual tension and expressing emotional closeness. Human sexuality is controlled by many internal and external factors such as anatomy, hormones and emotions [ 1 , 2 ].…”

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The Impact of COVID−19 on Female Sexual Health

Fuchs

Matonóg

Pilarska

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Introduction: Coronavirus disease (COVID−19), announced as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, recently has dominated people’s lifestyle. The impact of COVID−19 seems to be relevant to the sexual health as well. Methods: This prospective study was conducted on two occasions involving 764 female patients between March and April 2020—before and during the time of social quarantine. The sexual function was assessed using the Polish version of the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI). Every patient filled out the survey concerning socio-demographic characteristics as well as the influence of SARS-CoV−2 pandemic on their lives. Results: The overall FSFI score before the pandemic was 30.1 ± 4.4 and changed to 25.8 ± 9.7 during it. Scores of every domain: desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction and pain decreased as well (p < 0.001). There was statistically significant association between the workplace and the change of FSFI scores before and during COVID−19 pandemic (p < 0.01). We noticed the biggest decrease in FSFI score in the group of women who did not work at all (5.2 ± 9.9). Religion had a statistically important impact on level of anxiety (p < 0.01). Conclusion: The main finding of our study was the influence of COVID−19 pandemic on the quality of sexual lifestyle and frequency of intercourse among Polish women.

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“…The Why Humans Have Sex Short Form (YSEX?-SF) is a 28-item scale designed to measure reasons for engaging in sex (Meston, Kilimnik, Freihart, & Buss, 2019). The YSEX?-SF is derived from the original Why Humans Have Sex (YSEX?, Meston & Buss, 2007) survey and has been used in several studies.…”

Section: Reasons For Sexmentioning

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“…The YSEX?-SF has demonstrated acceptable internal reliability, α = 0.42 to 0.93, for each of the factors. In addition, 12 of the 14 factors have been found to have excellent cross-form validity (Meston et al, 2019).…”

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“…To determine the most endorsed reasons minor-attracted persons engage in sex with adult romantic partners, the mean score of each YSEX?-SF factor was calculated (Meston et al, 2019) and rank-ordered (refer to Table 1). Overall, the five most endorsed YSEX?-SF factors by minorattracted persons were pleasure, love and commitment, physical desirability, experience seeking, and practicality.…”

Section: Reasons For Having Sex With Adult Romantic Partnersmentioning

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Romantic and Sexual Relationships with Adult Partners Among Pedohebephilic Men

Mundy¹,

Lewis²,

Cioe³

2020

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Limited research has been conducted on minor-attracted persons’ romantic and sexual relationships with adult partners. This study examined reasons for such relationships among 128 self-identified minor-attracted persons. Secondary analyses explored whether age sexual orientation (i.e., degree of attraction to minors and/or adults) can be conceptualized as a continuum. We also explored whether age sexual orientation impacted reasons for engaging in sex with adult partners. The results suggest that age sexual orientation varies widely among minor-attracted persons and can be quantified using a modified Kinsey Scale. Minor-attracted persons endorsed both non-sexual and sexual reasons for engaging adult-partnered relationships. Minor-attracted persons with more exclusive attraction to minors were less likely to engage in sex for pleasure reasons and less likely to engage in romantic relationships due to love towards their adult partner; this contrasted with minor-attracted persons with less exclusive attraction to minors. These findings support the heterogeneity of minor-attracted persons, including differential reasons for engaging in adult-partnered relationships. Professionals should seek to understand the nature of their clients’ relationships and age sexual orientation to determine whether such factors are relevant. Professionals can then support clients in their search for meaningful relationships.

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Why Humans Have Sex: Development and Psychometric Assessment of a Short-Form Version of the YSEX? Instrument

Cited by 29 publications

References 19 publications

Providing Sexual Companionship for Resources: Development, Validation, and Personality Correlates of the Acceptance of Sugar Relationships in Young Women and Men Scale (ASR-YWMS)

Providing Sexual Companionship for Resources: Development, Validation, and Personality Correlates of the Acceptance of Sugar Relationships in Young Women and Men Scale (ASR-YWMS)

The Impact of COVID−19 on Female Sexual Health

Romantic and Sexual Relationships with Adult Partners Among Pedohebephilic Men

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