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- Title
"DRINKING MORE THAN NORMAL IN ORDER TO MAKE IT EASIER TO HAVE SEX WITH SOMEONE": A RACE, GENDER, CLASS ANALYSIS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS LIVING ON AND OFF CAMPUS.
- Authors
Anderson, Peter B.; Sorensen, William
- Abstract
In this study the authors focused on the question; how will ‘drinking more than normal’ and subsequent sexual activities fluctuate by the intersections of race, gender, and class? In addition, we were interested in determining how safer sex practices would differ by the intersections of race, gender, and class and how the additional variable of place (living on or off-campus) would interact with the target variables. The results show that even though having sex is the common denominator between the two dependent variables, they represent two different mechanisms to achieve sex and are mediated by different factors. Drinking to have sex is mediated by the interactions of gender, class, race, and age. Having multiple sex partners is mediated primarily by place, and by the intersection of class and age. In our study lower class Black males reported the fewest times drinking in order to have sex and the lowest number of sex partners in the past year compared to other groups. In ancillary analysis, men were more likely than women to drink to have sex with a casual partner and women were more likely than men to drink to have sex with a steady partner regardless of, and controlling for race, class, and age.
- Subjects
BUSINESS partnerships; SEX customs; SOCIOLOGY; DRINKING (Physiology); SOCIAL stability; DRINKING behavior; HUMAN behavior; PSYCHOANALYSIS; GENDER
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2006, Vol 13, Issue 1/2, p273
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article