Abernethy V
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1978 Apr;35(4):435-8. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1978.01770280045005.
The hypothesis that female dominance inhibits mating whereas male dominance facilitates it, and seemingly incongruous findings suggesting that dominant women take more initiative and are more interested than others in sex, are explored through comparison of feminist and control subjects, ie, women who were expected, a priori, to be located at widely separated points on a theoretical dominance continuum. Principal findings are the following: (1) sexual initiative and satisfaction appear to be greater among feminists than others, (2) there is no difference between groups in frequency of coitus in a present (or most recent) sexual relationship, but (3) there is a tendency for feminists to have had less stable first marriages than control subjects. These findings do permit more than one interpretation: the greater sexual satisfaction combined with marital instability among feminists may reflect their energy and willingness to change an unsatisfactory condition, or, in addition, the more general proposition that personal power is associated with positive sexual response in both men and women, so that there is minimal complementarity along this dimension. Both cultural and biologic factors appear to contribute to the relative instability of feminists' marriages.
女性占主导地位会抑制交配而男性占主导地位则会促进交配这一假设，以及一些看似矛盾的研究结果，即占主导地位的女性比其他人更主动且对性更感兴趣，通过对女权主义者和对照组受试者进行比较来探讨，也就是说，那些在理论上的主导连续体上被预先认为处于相距甚远位置的女性。主要研究结果如下：（1）女权主义者的性主动性和性满意度似乎高于其他人；（2）在当前（或最近）的性关系中，两组的性交频率没有差异，但（3）女权主义者的初婚稳定性往往低于对照组受试者。这些研究结果允许有多种解释：女权主义者较高的性满意度与婚姻不稳定相结合，可能反映出她们改变不满意状况的精力和意愿，或者，此外，更普遍的观点是，个人权力与男性和女性的积极性反应相关，因此在这方面互补性最小。文化和生物因素似乎都导致了女权主义者婚姻相对不稳定。
