title: Toward a classification of sex and sexual behavior.
abstract: This paper presents a classification of sexual behaviors bases on Foa and Foa's resource exchange theory. They postulated six classes of resources: information, services, possessions, money, love, and status. We expanded and applied this theory to sexual behavior through three modalities: 1) Doing (information and services), which relates to sex as performance; 2) Having (possessions and money), which relates to sex as product; and 3) Being (love and status), which relates to sex as presence. Implications of this framework for sexual deviations, empirical verification, diagnostic evaluation, and therapeutic interventions are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Georgia State University, Atlanta 30303.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: L'Abate
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hewitt
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008149:Love; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010262:Paraphilic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012723:Sex; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D020018:Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological / Q000523:psychology