(1) Initial follow-up scores 4-6 weeks later showed no differences, although adjusted scores were higher for erotophobic women.
(2) 72 female subjects were classified on the basis of a Sexual Experience Survey and the Sexual Opinion Survey as erotophilic or erotophobics.
(3) Both samples were then matched and completed the Relationship Closeness Inventory, the Hurlbert Index of Sexual Assertiveness, the Sexual Opinion Survey to assess the extent of negative (erotophobic) to positive (erotophilic) attitudes toward sex; the Sexuality Scale for its measures of sexual-esteem, sexual-preoccupation, and sexual depression; and the Index of Sexual Satisfaction.
(4) Moreover, the erotophobic students who took part in the sexuality course benefited from it less than did the erotophilic students as measured by their willingness to treat patients with sexual concerns.
(5) Erotophobic and erotophilic women viewed presentations about contraception while their physiological responses were being monitored.
(6) Thus, the hypothesis that erotophobic women have difficulty learning sexually explicit material on contraception was not supported.
(7) The results indicated that the erotophobic women knew less contraceptive information before the presentation and were more aroused by the presentation.
(8) Individuals with relatively positive sexual attitudes (erotophiles), as compared with individuals with relatively negative attitudes (erotophobes), were more likely to include such details as a glans, a urinary meatus, and chest hair on male figures and pubic hair and nipples on female figures.
(9) The results showed that the erotophobic students (those with negative feelings about sexuality) had significantly lower levels of sexual knowledge and were significantly less likely to participate in an elective human sexuality course than the erotophilic students (those with positive feelings about sexuality).
(10) There were no physiological differences during the pretest, but as predicted, the erotophobic women were significantly more aroused during the birth control presentation.
(11) Also, physically abusive men demonstrated more negative (erotophobic) attitudes toward sex and greater sexual preoccupation than did the nonabusers.
Prude
Definition:
(a.) A woman of affected modesty, reserve, or coyness; one who is overscrupulous or sensitive; one who affects extraordinary prudence in conduct and speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) A man of such ferocious spirit should not be remembered as a reactionary prude.
(2) Only a prude would expect their politicians not to exaggerate.
(3) I am no prude but often when I am walking home I see guys staggering about peeing randomly into gardens, bus stops, doorways.
(4) Nor does she pretend to be a prude or indulge in false shame.
(5) She's no prude, but found them disrespectful and out of place, but the male producer claimed they were just a joke, part of the "friendly banter".
(6) She doesn’t mention any grudge against Schnabel, just a generalised rage at having been “shelved and discredited by people who didn’t like that I was deeply honest [and] an unavailable prude who, at times, had a big mouth”.
(7) Breastfeeding moms get harassed, too – our culture expects women to cover up their “dirty pillows” for the sake of the children and the prudes on Facebook or sensationalizes the choice to not to do so.
(8) For a moment, Swift seemed in danger of typecasting herself as a victimised prude.
(9) "If he had said I was a prude I don't think I could have stayed with him."
(10) We have to ask ourselves, then: does this prude really have what it takes to be a world champion?
(11) People didn’t like that I was deeply honest and an unavailable prude who, at times, had a big mouth Yet she still had currency enough to win the prize role of Vicki Vale in Tim Burton’s Batman.
(12) However, we know he was a prude and I perceive him, to a certain degree, as a prick and smug and that is where we start.