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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 32, No. 4, 512-524 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167205282154
© 2006 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Sexual Submissiveness in Women: Costs for Sexual Autonomy and Arousal

Diana T. Sanchez

Rutgers University

Amy K. Kiefer

Oscar Ybarra

University of Michigan

Women are bombarded with images of women's sexual submission and subservience to male partners. The authors argue that women internalize this submissive role, namely, they associate sex implicitly with submission. The authors propose that this association leads to submissive sexual behavior, thereby reducing sexual autonomy and arousal. Study 1 found that women implicitly associated sex with submission. Study 2 showed that women's implicit association of sex with submission predicted greater personal adoption of a submissive sexual role. Study 3 found that men did not implicitly associate sex with submission. Study 4 demonstrated that women's adoption of a submissive sexual role predicted lower reported arousal and greater reported difficulty becoming sexually aroused; sexual autonomy mediated these effects.

Key Words: gender roles • sexual arousal • autonomy • implicit • power • submission


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