Trinh Sarah L, Choukas-Bradley Sophia
Psychology Department, University of Michigan. 530 Church St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
Psychology Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 235 E. Cameron Ave. Davie Hall CB #3270 UNC-CH Chapel Hill, NC 17599-3520.
Psychol Men Masc. 2018 Jul;19(3):430-438. doi: 10.1037/men0000113. Epub 2017 May 11.
The current study provided an exploratory mixed methods investigation of the messages undergraduate men received about sex and relationships from their male and female friends. Participants included 310 undergraduate men who provided written responses regarding the specific messages they had received from male and female friends. Descriptive codes included: Just Do It, Meaningful Intimacy, Gentlemen, Postpone Sex, Women's Sexual Desire, and Objectification of Women. Reports of sexual communications were typically consistent with the Heterosexual Script and congruent with the friend's gender. Accordingly, reports of male friends' communications often portrayed the accumulation of sexual experiences and partners as necessary and desirable, whereas serious, romantic relationships were often portrayed as hindrances. Reports of female friends' messages, in contrast, primarily focused on the importance of romantic relationships and the idealization of sex within such relationships. Reports of messages that were incongruent with the Heterosexual Script were rare, and were more often found in reports of female friends' communications. For example, female friends were the only source of messages regarding women's sexual needs, desire, and pleasures. By documenting patterns of common and uncommon messages and their sources, the present study contributed insights into how male and female friends similarly and differentially reinforce different dimensions of hegemonic masculinity.
本研究采用探索性混合方法，调查了本科男性从其男性和女性朋友那里收到的有关性与恋爱关系的信息。参与者包括310名本科男性，他们就从男性和女性朋友那里收到的具体信息提供了书面回复。描述性编码包括：“只管去做”、“有意义的亲密关系”、“绅士”、“推迟性行为”、“女性的性欲”以及“对女性的物化”。有关性交流的报告通常与异性恋脚本一致，且与朋友的性别相符。因此，关于男性朋友交流的报告往往将性经历和性伴侣的积累描绘为必要且令人向往的，而严肃的浪漫关系则常常被描绘为障碍。相比之下，关于女性朋友信息的报告主要侧重于浪漫关系的重要性以及此类关系中性爱的理想化。与异性恋脚本不一致的信息报告很少见，且更多地出现在关于女性朋友交流的报告中。例如，女性朋友是关于女性性需求、欲望和愉悦信息的唯一来源。通过记录常见和不常见信息的模式及其来源，本研究为了解男性和女性朋友如何相似且不同地强化霸权男性气质的不同维度提供了见解。
