TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Urban Heterosexual Couples’ Sexual Scripts for Three Shared Sexual Experiences
JO  - Sex roles
A1  - Seal, David Wyatt
A1  - Smith, Michael
A1  - Coley, Brenda
A1  - Perry, June
A1  - Gamez, Maria
SP  - 626
EP  - 638
VL  - 58
IS  - 9-10
N2  - A heterogeneous sample of 38 young adult heterosexual couples living in a US city (N = 76) provided narratives about their first, most physically arousing, and most emotionally intimate sexual experiences. Physical arousal and passion and emotional intimacy intrapsychic scripts were evident across all three sexual experiences, although both discourses encompassed multiple sub-themes. First sexual occasions generally adhered to more traditional interpersonal sexual scripts, while greater mutuality was observed in the other two sexual experiences. Traditional interpersonal scripts were most prevalent within couples in which there was a greater male-to-female age differential and in which the male partner was older or Black. Our findings reinforce the need to systematically examine sexual scripts among underrepresented populations and across diverse types of sexual experiences.<p /> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0360-0025
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11199-007-9369-z
ID  - ref1
ER  -