[lbo-talk] ICYMI: "Slut-shaming has little to do with sex, study finds"

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Mon Jun 9 20:20:26 PDT 2014


I'm tempted to chalk this one up under "things everyone should have known already," but it's still interesting to see the actual findings.

"A new study of college women and their attitudes about so-called sluttiness found that slut-shaming — calling out a woman for her supposedly promiscuous sexual behavior — actually had more to do with a woman's social class than it did with sexual activity ...

"The researchers discovered that definitions of 'slutty' behavior and the act of slut-shaming was largely determined along class lines rather than based on actual sexual behavior. What's more, they found the more affluent women were able to engage in more sexual experimentation without being slut-shamed, while the less-affluent women were ridiculed as sluts for being 'trashy' or 'not classy,' even though they engaged in less sexual behavior."

http://alj.am/1hCHaLj

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