Push and pull: Exposure of young Taiwanese women to sexually explicit materials.
This study was designed to understand young Taiwanese women's perception of sexually explicit materials (SEMs). Researchers conducted six focus group discussions with 38 young women between the ages of 18 and 22 in Taiwan in 2009-2010 and used content analysis to analyze the data based on the push-pull theory. The results showed that the exposure of young women to SEMs was a sexual exploration process from no sexual activity to future sexual activity. This process was affected by the interactions of three powers: push power, pull power, and personal factors. The push power included factors, such as parents and social values, which failed to satisfy their sexual curiosity and provide them with autonomy. The pull power included SEMs and peer influence, which increased sexual arousal stimuli and curiosity to try sexual activity. The most important personal factors were young women's growth, including sexual curiosity, cognition of SEMs, and gender equity in freedom to make sexual decisions. Understanding this push-pull process regarding SEM can help health-care providers with their own discourses in addressing sex and influence young women's participation in desired, protected, and enjoyable sex when sufficiently ready.
a College of Nursing , Fooyin University , Kaohsiung City , Taiwan.
Ying-Hua
YH
Tseng
b School of Nursing , The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina , USA.
Noreen
N
Esposito
c College of Medical and Health Science , Fooyin University , Kaohsiung City , Taiwan.
Shih-Hsien
SH
Kuo
d College of Nursing , Kaohsiung Medical University , Kaohsiung City , Taiwan.
Fan-Hao
FH
Chou
e School of Nursing , National Taichung University of Science and Technology , Taichung City , Taiwan.
Mei-Li
ML
Cheng
D000293:Adolescent; D003469:Culture; D004882:Erotica; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D010379:Peer Group; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012736:Sex Education; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012931:Social Environment; D013624:Taiwan; D055815:Young Adult
Push-pull theory; sexually explicit material (SEM); young women