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ArticleJournal of sex research2022

"For Me, It's Having Something Meaningful": Women's Emotional Understandings of Sex and the Sexual Acceptability of Contraception.

Cristen Dalessandro, Rachael Thorpe, Jessica Sanders

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Article in Journal of sex research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 authors.

Cristen DalessandroDivision of Family Planning, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah School of Medicine.ORCID 0000-0003-3780-8647
Rachael ThorpeDivision of Family Planning, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah School of Medicine.
Jessica SandersDivision of Family Planning, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah School of Medicine.ORCID 0000-0002-4487-1997

Funding

BUILDING INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH CAREER IN WOMEN'S HEALTH (BIRCWH) SCHOLARSK12HD055894 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI BURNSIDE, ELIZABETH S · 2007 to 2016
$4.1M
Utah Building Interdisciplinary Resreach Careers in Women's Health Career Development ProgramK12HD085852 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI VARNER, MICHAEL W. · 2015 to 2019
$2.3M
Sexual Acceptability's Role in Women's Contraceptive Preference and BehaviorR01HD095661 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI HIGGINS, JENNY A. · 2017 to 2020
$1.4M
Leveraging Linked Data to Evaluate Social and Spatial Disparities in Contraception Access and Regional Program ImpactsK01HS027220 · AHRQ · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI SANDERS, JESSICA N · 2020 to 2022
$471k
AHRQ HHS K01 HS027220NICHD NIH HHS K12 HD055894NICHD NIH HHS K12 HD085852NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD095661
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While the sexual acceptability of contraception - or, the impact of contraceptive methods on individuals' sexual experiences - is a growing area of research, less frequently do studies engage the importance of individual emotions around sex when it comes to perceptions of sexual acceptability. Building on Higgins and Smith's model of sexual acceptability and drawing upon insights from the sociology of gender, we used qualitative interview data with 30 women in Utah (USA) to explore the importance of emotional understandings of sex for women's assessments of the sexual acceptability of different contraceptives. Here we posit that emotional understandings of sex are not just individualistic - they are also structured by experiences with sexual partners and broader gendered expectations. This work adds insight into the importance of emotions in sexual acceptability and suggests the need for an amendment to Higgins and Smith's model that reflects the synergistic nature of the micro/individual, meso/interactional, and macro factors related to sexual acceptability. We conclude that assessing the sexual acceptability of contraceptives requires a nuanced multi-level interaction framework.

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ContraceptionSexual BehaviorContraception BehaviorContraceptive AgentsEmotionsFemaleHumansMaleSexual PartnersContraceptive Agents

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PMID34357808
PMCPMC8818050

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