Birds of a feather? Not when it comes to sexual permissiveness - Zhana Vrangalova, Rachel E. Bukberg, Gerulf Rieger, 2014

sadomasochrist · 2019-08-04T02:04:35+00:00

tl;dr : Never trust a whore, even whores don't trust them.

hopfield · 2019-08-04T05:01:23+00:00

DONT TRUST A WHORE

DONT TRUST ME

Altmark22 · 2019-08-04T01:12:23+00:00

Abstract:

Prior research finds that sexually permissive individuals are judged more negatively than non permissive peers, placing them at risk of social isolation. Based on the positive assortment principle (i.e., preferences for similarity in attributes in close relationships), we examined whether participants’ own permissiveness mitigated negative judgments of permissive others in the same-sex friendship context.

College students (N=751) evaluated a hypothetical same-sex target with either 2 (non permissive) or 20 (permissive) past sex partners on 10 friendship-relevant outcomes. Participant permissiveness attenuated some negative evaluations. However, preferences were rarely reversed, and no moderation was found in five outcomes, suggesting the role of permissiveness-based positive assortment is limited, and evolutionary concerns may take precedence. Partial support for the sexual double standard was also found.

Key findings:

There is a widespread distrust/disdain for promiscuous women:

As predicted, compared to the non permissive target, participants expressed greater need for mate guarding from permissive targets, preferred them less with respect to morality, were more likely to dislike their sexuality, and less likely to like their sexuality.Women and non permissive men also rated the permissive target lower on friendship desirability. Such negative main effects and a general lack of a double standard in these overall evaluation-type outcomes are consistent with prior findings.

However, it seems that woman have a far more negative perception of promiscuous women then men, which is congruent with previous findings; (see: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPillScience/comments/aksy8x/the_ultimate_female_misogyny_and_nastiness for an overview) that the main driver of so-called 'slut-shaming' is female intrasexual competition for desirable mates:

A double standard emerged for preferences regarding four specific personality dimensions, including competence, emotional stability, warmth, and dominance. Whereas women preferred the non permissive target in all four dimensions, men showed preference for the permissive target in the first two, and no preference in the last two dimensions

The authors found the participants own levels of sexual permissiveness didn't moderate their own negative perceptions of female promiscuity, i.e sluts have an equal tendency to dislike other sluts and see them as potential rivals:

No moderation of participant permissiveness was detected regarding mate guarding,with the heightened need to mate guard from permissive targets compared to non-permissive targets equally pronounced in all participants. This indicates a precedence of evolutionary concerns over positive assortment in this regard, confirming evolutionary expectations that mate poaching is considered universally undesirable, even by those who are most likely to attempt it themselves, and that permissive friends pose the same level of risk for everyone, regardless of one’s own permissiveness.

Title	Birds of a feather? Not when it comes to sexual permissiveness - Zhana Vrangalova, Rachel E. Bukberg, Gerulf Rieger, 2014
Author	Altmark22
Upvotes	57
Comments	5
Date	August 4, 2019 12:59 AM UTC (4 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/BlackPillScience
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