A Cross-Cultural Summary: Pregnancy

Societies with sex taboos during pregnancy will tend to have independent rather than extended families (285, 236).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher's Exact Test	Supported	p = .033	Phi = -.345	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Pregnancy Sex Taboos	Association	Pregnancy
Household Family Type	Association	Household

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Textor, Robert B.	1967	Societies with sex taboos during pregnancy will tend to lack a high god (285, 426).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Textor, Robert B.	1967	Societies with sex taboos during pregnancy will tend to have tropical or sub-tropical natural environments (285, 42).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ayres, Barbara	1967	"The largest number of food taboos [in pregnancy] should be observed in societies where there is a high reward of dependency in childhood" (115)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ayres, Barbara	1967	"A long sex taboo [during pregnancy] does in fact occur more frequently in polygynous than in monogamous societies" (121)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ayres, Barbara	1967	"[There is] a relationship between norms of premarital sex behavior [as a measure of sex anxiety] and duration of the sex taboo during pregnancy. [Strict norms tend to result in long duration]" (122)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author