The Sexual Double Standard: Fact or Fiction?

By Michael J. Marks, R. C. Fraley. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Health Professions

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Sexual Double Standard: A Review of the Literature Between 2001 and 2010 (2012, background): “In addition, the opinions that individuals express in scales may not be the same as their evaluations of real people (Marks and Fraley 2005).”
Confirmation Bias and the Sexual Double Standard (2006, methodology): “To date, these studies show limited empirical support for the double standard (e.g., Gentry, 1998; Jacoby & Williams, 1985; Mark & Miller, 1986; Marks & Fraley, 2005a; Oliver & Sedikides, 1992; O’Sullivan, 1995; Sprecher, 1989; Sprecher, McKinney, Walsh, & Anderson, 1988).”
The Power of Prestige: Why Young Men Report Having more Sex Partners than Young Women (2009, background): “The proximal reasons are most likely the sexual double standard (e.g., Marks and Fraley 2005) and social desirability issues (Meston et al. 1998) leading to women’s underreporting.”
Common vs. Uncommon Sexual Acts: Evidence for the Sexual Double Standard (2009, background): “The two measures conform to the positive–negative distinction that other authors (e.g., Marks & Fraley 2005, 2007) have implicitly used in their research, confirming RQ1.”
Backlash From the Bedroom (2013, background): “Although debate continues about whether sexual double standards are ‘‘fact or fiction’’ (see Crawford & Popp, 2003; Marks & Fraley, 2005), our results strongly support the existence of a sexual double standard, at least regarding casual sex.”
On the Margins: Considering Diversity among Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships (2014, background): “…judged for standard sexual behaviors (i.e., sex with few partners, premarital sex), the social repercussions of sexual double standards become more obvious when target individuals engage in less widely-accepted sexual practices (Conley, 2011; Conley, Ziegler, & Moors, 2012; Marks & Fraley, 2005).”
Feminism Between the Sheets: Sexual Attitudes Among Feminists, Nonfeminists, and Egalitarians (2007, background): “Although the prevalence and effect of the sexual double standard is somewhat contested (e.g., Marks & Fraley, 2005), Milhausen and Herold (2001) found that 85% of people surveyed believe that a sexual double standard exists.”
To Hook Up or Date: Which Gender Benefits? (2010, background): “The sexual double standard can make women feel guilty about hooking up. Although there is some evidence this double standard has disappeared ( Marks and Fraley 2005 ), most research suggests this double standard continues to affect the perceptions of women and men, such that women are derogated and ”
‘No girl wants to be called a slut!’: women, heterosexual casual sex and the sexual double standard (2017, background): “…1995; lees, 1993; 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,…”