Sexual double standards: A review and methodological critique of two decades of research

By Mary Crawford, Danielle Popp. Journal of Sex Research, 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, General Health Professions

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Polyamorous Women, Sexual Subjectivity and Power (2005, background): “Numerous theorists agree with L. Rubin’s (1990a; see also L. Rubin 1990b) assessment that the gendered sexual double standard remains firmly entrenched (Crawford and Popp 2003; Dunn 1998; Jeffreys 1990; Martin 1996; Risman and Schwartz 2002).”
Sexting, Mobile Porn Use, and Peer Group Dynamics: Boys' and Girls' Self-Perceived Popularity, Need for Popularity, and Perceived Peer Pressure (2014, background): “Due to the sexual double standard, which proclaims that sexual permissiveness is acceptable for boys, but not for girls, boys’ involvement in frequent or early sexual activity is likely to enhance their status, while for girls, this is more likely to harm their reputation (Crawford & Popp, 2003).”
The Role of Friends’ Appearance and Behavior on Evaluations of Individuals on Facebook: Are We Known by the Company We Keep? (2008, background): “This effect has been shown to be a pervasive belief in Western cultural ideology and the subject of much scholarly research (see, for review, Crawford & Popp, 2003; Marks & Fraley, 2006).”
Has Dating Become More Egalitarian? A 35 Year Review Using Sex Roles (2011, background): “In hook ups, women lose status and experience more regret and guilt than men (Crawford and Popp 2003; Eshbaugh and Gute 2008).”
Common vs. Uncommon Sexual Acts: Evidence for the Sexual Double Standard (2009, methodology): “However, the decontextualized person-perception paradigm could have driven this effect (Crawford & Popp 2003).”
Nonconsensual pornography among U.S. adults: A sexual scripts framework on victimization, perpetration, and health correlates for women and men. (2020, background): “Further, sexual scripts contribute to polarized attitudes about men’s and women’s sexual experiences, also known as sexual double standards (Bordini & Sperb, 2013; Crawford & Popp, 2003).”
‘If a girl’s photo gets sent around, that’s a way bigger deal than if a guy’s photo gets sent around’: gender, sexting, and the teenage years (2018, background): “The ‘double standard’ being that, traditionally the behaviors of men are governed by different ‘rules’ than those of women (Crawford & Popp, 2003).”
Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood (2009, background): “…about what women should not do underlies a sexual double standard: While men are expected to desire and pursue sexual opportunities regardless of context, women are expected to avoid casual sex–having sex only when in relationships and in love (Crawford and Popp 2003; Risman and Schwartz 2002).”
Gender, Belief in the Sexual Double Standard, and Sexual Talk in Heterosexual Dating Relationships (2005, result): “Couples in the present study generally did not report strong belief in the sexual double standard, which adds to previous work on the weakening of the traditional double standard in established relationships (e.g., Gentry, 1998; Milhausen & Herold, 1999), although more evidence for the double standa”
‘No girl wants to be called a slut!’: women, heterosexual casual sex and the sexual double standard (2017, background): “…Marks & Farley, 2007; Reid, Elliott, & Webber, 2011; Stewart, 1999), and quantitative research (Greene & Faulkner, 2005; Marks & Fraley, 2005; Milhausen & Herold, 1999) and is still very much implicated in wider cultural discourse of heterosexuality (Bordini & Sperb, 2013; Crawford & Popp, 2003).”
The sexual double standard and gender differences in attitudes toward casual sex among U.S. university students (2014, background): “Many social scientists, on the other hand, see such gender differences in preferences for casual sex as resulting from a socially enforced double standard: girls and women are judged harshly if they are seen as “too” sexual (Crawford and Popp 2003; Miller 2008; Armstrong et al. 2012), while boys and”
A meta-analytic review of research on gender differences in sexuality, 1993-2007. (2010, background): “…gender differences, meta-analysis Supplemental materials: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0017504.supp Numerous empirical studies have examined the stereotype that men have more sexual experience and hold more permissive sexual attitudes than women (Crawford & Popp, 2003; Marks & Fraley, 2006).”
Confirmation Bias and the Sexual Double Standard (2006, background): “Even when an interaction between target gender and sexual activity has been found, it is often found only in highly circumscribed situations (see Crawford & Popp, 2003, for a review).”
III. Wanting and Not Wanting Sex: The Missing Discourse of Ambivalence (2005, neutral): “Sexual double standards still exist (Crawford and Popp, 2003).”
Inhabiting the contradictions: Hypersexual femininity and the culture of intoxication among young women in the UK (2013, background): “The long-standing influence of the sexual/gendered double standard remains in evidence throughout contemporary western societies, including youth drinking cultures (Crawford and Popp, 2003; De Visser and McDonnell, 2011).”