Premarital Sex Norms

Associated Documents (4)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Broude, Gwen J.Norms of premarital sexual behavior: a cross-cultural study
Robbins, Michael C. Climate and behavior: a biocultural study
Ball, Donald W.The scaling of gaming: skill, strategy, and chance
Murdock, George PeterCultural correlates of the regulation of premarital sex behavior

Associated Hypotheses (13)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Broude, Gwen J."If norms of premarital sexual behavior are related to sex anxiety, they would be expected to correlate highly with a scale measuring degree of sex anxiety in childhood" (386)
Broude, Gwen J.There is a relationship between premarital sex norms and sex anxiety in adulthood as measured by the Minturn, Grosse and Haider (1969) scale (387, 388)
Broude, Gwen J."Societies characterized by high accessibility of caretakers [child care] will have permissive premarital sex norms. Societies characterized by low accessibility of caretakers will ave restrictive premarital sex norms" (393)
Broude, Gwen J.No significant relationships were found between premarital sex norms and the following caretaking-anxiety variables: display of affection, age of independence training, ease of independence training, age of weaning, number of caretakers (395, 396)
Broude, Gwen J."When each independent variable is tested against premarital sex norms while holding the others constant, only three [i.e., accessibility of caretakers, class stratification, and cultural complexity] retain their power to predict permissiveness and restrictiveness with statistical certainty" (398)
Robbins, Michael C. "Most of the societies in warm climates have relatively permissive sex codes for females, while the opposite holds true for societies in cold climates. . ." (337)
Ball, Donald W.Rigidity and punitiveness concerning premarital sexual behavior will be negatively associated with game complexity (290).
Murdock, George Peter"Complexity of techniques in subsistence economy . . . favors the development of restrictive norms of premarital sex behavior" (402)
Murdock, George Peter"Complex . . . technological activities, metal working with the application of fire . . . and weaving (with the use of loom or frame) [favors the development of restrictive premarital sex behavior]" (402)
Murdock, George Peter"Societies with local communities having large populations . . . are characterized by restrictive sexual norms. . . . Where local groups are small in size . . . norms of premarital sex behavior tend strongly to be permissive" (404)
Murdock, George Peter"Logically, we might expect to find restrictive norms of premarital sex behavior with political complexity and permissive norms with simple political systems" (405)
Murdock, George Peter"The evidence . . . clearly demonstrates an association between norms of premarital sex behavior and beliefs concerning a high god" (406-407)
Murdock, George Peter"[There is] modest support [for] the widely held assumption that patrilocal residence and the features commonly associated there with . . . Produce a situation conducive to an insistence on virginity in unmarried women" (407)

Associated OCMs

  1. premarital sex relations
  2. cleanliness training