(1) Previous research has suggested that women with a negative emotional orientation toward sexuality (i.e., erotophobia) have difficulty learning and retaining sexually relevant material such as contraceptive information.
(2) The mental health concerns of gay and lesbian adolescents are best understood within the context of cultural limitations, including a problematic conceptualization of adolescence, homophobia, and erotophobia.
(3) "Erotophobia," which was not related closely to the rights issue, was associated with moral judgments about homosexual acts.
(4) These errors include the researcher's: erotophobia, dualistic thinking, use of "self-labels," and most important, misuse of the Kinsey Scale as a basic definitional assumption.
(5) Women's gender role attitudes, erotophobia-erotophilia, and other attitudes and beliefs varied as a function of their experience with token resistance and their sexual experience.
(6) The results indicate that sexual conservatism, as measured by an affective dimension of erotophilia-erotophobia, and social prejudice, as measured by racist and sexist beliefs, are independent and equal predictors of antihomosexual sentiment.
(7) Signs of erotophobia could also be found in reporting the chance of sex in the future (r = -.41, p .01); the belief that contraception leads to sexual promiscuity (r = -.17, p .05); the belief that the use of contraception leads to feelings of guilt (r = -13, p .05); reported likelihood of engaging in public actions to obtain contraceptives (r = .29, p .01); and the reported continued use of contraception (r = .14, p .05).
(8) Various North American researchers believe that erotophobia (negative feelings about sex) is in some way responsible for increase sexual relations and lack of concern over contraception.
Prudery
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being prudish; excessive or affected scrupulousness in speech or conduct; stiffness; coyness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Who would've predicted that instead of laughing at Victorian prudery, many men still expect their sexual encounters to entail pudenda, pins and pits as marble smooth as those of young Ruskin's imagination?
(2) Despite government prudery, the dramatic decrease in rates of rectal gonorrhea in New York and San Francisco indicate that homosexuals are listening to appeals to practice "safe sex."
(3) He picked apart politicians, living and dead; mocked religion and prudery; opposed wars from Vietnam to Iraq; and insulted his peers like no other, once observing that the three saddest words in the English language were Joyce Carol Oates.
(4) As this organ resembles the letter Omega of the Greek alphabet those who believe in prudery speak of it as the omega-shaped organ.
(5) In his book on theatre censorship, Politics, Prudery and Perversions , Nicholas de Jongh suggests it was the violence of Bond's "real-life, demotic speech" that horrified his audience.
(6) Mann was surprised to see an art critic using the vocabulary of a 10-year-old, but not by the underlying prejudice: "There's a new prudery around death.