A Cross-Cultural Summary: Premarital Sexual Relations

A Cross-Cultural Summary • HRAF Press • New Haven, Connecticut • Published In • Pages: ??•
By Textor, Robert B.

Abstract

Textor summarizes cross-cultural findings on premarital sexual relations pertaining to cultural, environmental, psychological, and social phenomena.

Note

Premarital Sexual Relations is a section of, A Cross-Cultural Summary. Additionally, following each hypothesis are two sets of numbers enclosed in parenthesis: the first is the identification for the dependent variable and the second is the independent variable identification.

Samples

Sample Used Coded Data Comment
Ethnographic Atlas (EA)Previously Coded

Hypotheses (11)

HypothesisSupported
There will tend to be greater female contribution to subsistence in societies freely permitting premarital sexual relations (389, 127).Marginally Supported
There will tend to be less specialized occupations in societies freely permitting premarital sexual relations (389, 118).Supported
There will tend to be an absence of subordinate punishment in societies freely permitting premarital sexual relations (389, 138).Marginally Supported
There will tend to be a slight or overall absence of female property rights in societies freely permitting premarital sexual relations (389, 278).Supported
There will tend to be lower levels of social anxiety in societies freely permitting premarital sexual relations (389, 308).Supported
There will tend to be no sexual illness explanations in societies freely permitting premarital sexual relations (389, 404).Supported
There will tend to be medium or high food taboo observations in societies freely permitting sexual freedom (389, 450).Supported
There will tend to be low societal complexity in societies freely permitting or with weak punishments for premarital sexual relations (390, 91).Supported
There will tend to be kin groups that are not solely patrilineal in societies freely permitting or with weak punishments for premarital sexual relations (390, 186).Marginally Supported
There will tend to be lower levels of sex anxiety in societies freely permitting or with weak punishments for premarital sexual relations (390, 398).Supported
There will tend to be wife-lending or wife-borrowing in societies freely permitting premarital sexual relations or only punishing upon a resulting pregnancy (391, 279).Marginally Supported
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