title: Sexual boundaries: an examination of the importance of talking before touching.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
authors.forename: Andrea H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Winslett
authors.forename: Alan M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: 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