Gender, belief in the sexual double standard, and sexual talk in heterosexual dating relationships

Sex Roles

Volumn 53, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 239-251

  Greene, Kathryn ^a,c   Faulkner, Sandra L ^b  

^a State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disclosure; Gender sexual attitudes; Heterosexual dating couples; Sexual scripts; Sexual self disclosure; Sexual talk

Indexed keywords

EID: 27244447174     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-005-5682-6     Document Type: Article

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