a Department of Psychological Sciences , Texas Tech University College of Arts and Sciences , Lubbock , Texas , USA.
b Department of Rural Health , Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences , Tulsa , Oklahoma , USA.
J Sex Marital Ther. 2019;45(4):317-327. doi: 10.1080/0092623X.2018.1526837. Epub 2019 Jan 14.
Little is known about motivations of adults who sext their relationship partners. Participants ( = 126, 71 male) completed an online questionnaire to assess their motivations for sexting their current relationship partner(s). The results of a MANOVA indicated the overwhelming motivation was to initiate sexual behaviors for all groups. Other motivations of instrumental/aggressive reasons were significantly higher for heterosexual men, and body image reinforcement was significantly higher for sexual-minority men. With results indicating the main motivation to sext was to initiate sexual behaviors, the potential of using sexting as an intervention to increase sexual intimacy in relationships is discussed.
目前人们对与性伴侣互发色情短信的成年人的动机知之甚少。参与者（n=126，71 名男性）完成了一份在线问卷，以评估他们与当前恋爱对象互发色情短信的动机。MANOVA 的结果表明，对于所有群体来说，最主要的动机是为了开始性行为。出于工具/攻击目的的其他动机在异性恋男性中显著更高，而在性少数男性中，身体意象强化则显著更高。研究结果表明，互发色情短信的主要动机是为了开始性行为，因此可以探讨将互发色情短信作为一种增加恋爱关系中性亲密感的干预手段。
