(Not) talking about sex
Couple reports of sexual discussion and expression in Bangalore, India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15098915 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janna McDougall (International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW), corresponding author), Jeffrey Edmeades (0000-0003-4092-7700, International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW)), Suneeta Krishnan (Women's Global Health Imperative, Research Triangle Institute International) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-156 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13691058.2010.520740 |
| PMID | 20967650 |
| PMCID | PMC3010300 |
| OpenAlex | W2089769463 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 20 |
Adolescent marriage is common in India, placing young women at risk of HIV, early pregnancy and poor birth outcomes. Young women's capacity to express their sexual desires is central to negotiating safe and mutually consensual sexuality. Men, too, play an important role in shaping women's sexual and reproductive health outcomes, but little research has examined how men influence women's sexual expression. Using paired husband and wife data, this paper reports on a preliminary investigation into the patterns of and concurrence between women's sexual expression and their husbands' attitudes about it, as well as the influence of men's approval of their wives' sexual expression on women's actual expression of sexual desire. The results suggest that, among this sample, men are more open to sexual expression than their wives and that, for women, expressing desire not to have sex is far more common than expressing desire to have sex. Further, men's approval of sexual expression from wives appears to positively influence women's actual expression. These findings suggest that men may be resources for women to draw upon as they negotiate sexuality in adolescence and early adulthood
Developmental psychology · Human sexuality · Negotiation · Political science · Population · Psychoanalysis · Reproductive health · Romance · Sociology · Wife · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Demography · Gender Studies · Medicine · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Psychology · Sex work and related issues
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Resources, Agency, Achievements
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,79 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2022 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |