In feminist sociocultural models of rape, extreme adherence to the masculine gender role is
implicated in the perpetuation of sexual assault against women in that it encourages men to …

In this article, we review the major research advances made during the 1990s in the study of
sexuality in marriage and other close relationships. More specifically, we provide a critical …

Commonly used dating violence prevention programs assume that promotion of more
egalitarian gender role attitudes will prevent dating violence perpetration. Empirical …

In the award-winning Just Sex? The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape, Nicola Gavey provides an
extensive commentary on the existing literature on rape, analysing recent research to …

Whereas gendered sexual scripts are hegemonic at the cultural level, research suggests
they may be less so at dyadic and individual levels. Understanding “disjunctures” between …

Since its formal introduction in the early 1970s, sexual script theory has been a popular
conceptual framework among social scientists examining human sexuality. In this chapter …

A relational approach to the study of interpersonal communication Close Encounters:
Communication in Relationships, Fifth Edition helps students better understand their …

In recent years a number of multifactorial theories of child sexual abuse have been
developed. The most influential are Finkelhor's (1984) Precondition Model of child sexual …

Objectives: This study examines rates of nonconsensual pornography victimization and
perpetration in the United States, as well as health correlates of victimization …

Sexual consent is an understudied and undertheorized concept despite its importance to
feminist researchers and activists interested in sexual violence. Literature on consent …