دورية أكاديمية
"I Just Wasn't Thinking": Strategic Ambiguity and Women's Accounts of Unprotected Sex.
| العنوان: | "I Just Wasn't Thinking": Strategic Ambiguity and Women's Accounts of Unprotected Sex. |
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| المؤلفون: | James-Hawkins L; Department of Sociology, University of Essex., Jozkowski KN; Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University. |
| المصدر: | Journal of sex research [J Sex Res] 2024 May-Jun; Vol. 61 (5), pp. 695-708. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 25. |
| نوع المنشور: | Journal Article |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Routledge Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0062647 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1559-8519 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00224499 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Sex Res Subsets: MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Publication: Philadelphia : Routledge Original Publication: New York, Society for the Scientific Study of Sex. |
| مواضيع طبية MeSH: | Unsafe Sex*/psychology, Humans ; Female ; Young Adult ; Adult ; Students/psychology ; Universities ; Adolescent ; Qualitative Research |
| مستخلص: | Heterosexual university students continue to endorse sexual scripts that preference men's desire and sustain gendered power imbalances in sexual relationships and encounters, leading women to risk pregnancy by engaging in unprotected sex. Because young women also endorse norms encouraging them to protect themselves and their partners from unintended pregnancy, women are caught in a bind between two often competing norms. We conducted semi-structured individual interviews with university women ( n = 45) to examine how they navigate these competing norms. We found that women explained risky contraceptive decisions by saying they "just weren't thinking," thus employing strategic ambiguity, or vague language used to maintain social status, to navigate between competing norms. Our findings suggest that women were actually thinking about risks and making calculated decisions in the moment which often privileged men, putting themselves at risk and sometimes causing distress. To save face, women presented the idea that they "just weren't thinking" in different ways that conformed to traditional notions of romance and sexuality: being in the moment, love and trust for their partner, and deferring to the perceived or actual wishes of men. We conclude that there is a need to promote and achieve affirmative sexuality which includes women feeling empowered to express their own sexual needs - whether that be consent or refusal, contraception, pleasure, or all of these. |
| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20230425 Date Completed: 20240520 Latest Revision: 20240523 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20240523 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00224499.2023.2201252 |
| PMID: | 37097291 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
PDF full text from Publisher | تدمد: | 1559-8519 |
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| DOI: | 10.1080/00224499.2023.2201252 |