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You’re a female character in a horror film. Should you have sex?

Eric Barker
October 31, 2011


Looks like the old truism really is true:

The slasher horror film has been deplored based on claims that it depicts eroticized violence against predominately female characters as punishment for sexual activities. To test this assertion, a quantitative content analysis was conducted to examine the extent to which gender differences are evident in the association between character survival and engagement in sexual activities. Information pertaining to gender, engagement in sexual activities, and survival was coded for film characters from a simple random sample of 50 English-language, North American slasher films released between 1960 and 2009. Results indicated that sexual female characters were less likely to survive and had significantly longer death scenes as compared to those female characters who did not engage in sexual behaviors.

Source: “On the Perils of Living Dangerously in the Slasher Horror Film: Gender Differences in the Association Between Sexual Activity and Survival” by Andrew Welsh, Department of Criminology and Contemporary Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

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Title You’re a female character in a horror film. Should you have sex?
Author Eric Barker
Date October 31, 2011 4:57 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Blog bakadesuyo
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