Sexual boundaries: an examination of the importance of talking before touching.
This study examined a woman's clearly articulated sexual boundary and its effect on college students' discrimination of when a woman wants her date to stop making sexual advances. Male and female participants listened to an audio recording of a date rape vignette and signaled when the man should stop making sexual advances. Relative to participants in the no-boundary condition, participants who heard a discussion including a sexual boundary before intimate physical contact occurred displayed significantly shorter latencies to identify the inappropriateness of the man's behavior. No significant difference was observed between male and female participants.
Winslett
Andrea H
AH
Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Gross
Alan M
AM
D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D003380:Courtship / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012747:Sexual Partners / Q000523:psychology*; D012938:Social Perception; D012945:Social Values; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires