AUTHOR=Gómez-Berrocal Carmen , Moyano Nieves , Álvarez-Muelas Ana , Sierra Juan Carlos TITLE=Sexual double standard: A gender-based prejudice referring to sexual freedom and sexual shyness JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=13 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1006675 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1006675 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
The sexual double standard (SDS) consists of judging men and women differently for the same sexual behavior. This study contributes to research on the factors that determine inconsistent adherence to the SDS. It uses a descriptive methodology to analyze the association between individual and contextual factors both with adherence to the SDS, and with four SDS adherence typologies (man-favorable SDS, woman-favorable SDS, egalitarian and ambivalent). A total of 1,206 heterosexual Spanish adults (603 men and 603 women) participated. The mean age in the male sample was 41.7 (