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Intro -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Sexuality and Sexual Behavior -- Premarital Pregnancy in America 1640-1971: An Overview and Interpretation -- Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850 -- The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America -- What Ought to Be and What Was: Women's Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century -- Private Lives and Public Order: A Critical View of the History of Intimate Relations in the U.S. -- Women's Life in Utopia: The Shaker Experiment in Sexual Equality Reappraised - 1810 to 1860 -- Sex and Self-Control: Middle-Class Courtship in America, 1770-1870 -- Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Sexual Thought -- "Living the Principle" of Plural Marriage: Mormon Women, Utopia, and Female Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century -- Fallen Women: The Inmates of the Magdalen Society Asylum of Philadelphia, 1836-1908 -- "Ruined" Girls: Changing Community Responses to Illegitimacy in Upstate New York, 1890-1920 -- The Awesome Power of Sex: The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy -- Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America: Behavior, Ideology, and Politics -- Smashing: Women's Relationships before the Fall -- The Morbidification of Love between Women by 19th-century Sexologists -- From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and the Changing Conceptualization of Female Deviance -- "Imagine My Surprise": Women's Relationships in Historical Perspective -- The American Woman's Pre-World War I Freedom in Manners and Morals -- Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century -- The Crime of Precocious Sexuality: Female Juvenile Delinquency in the Progressive Era -- Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the "Sexual Revolution" of the Progressive Era.

This study examined the relationships between childhood attachment and coercive sexual behavior. One hundred sixty-two male undergraduate students completed self-report measures of childhood maternal attachment, childhood paternal attachment, adult attachment, antisociality, aggression, and coercive sexual behavior. As predicted, insecure childhood attachment, especially insecure paternal attachment, was associated with antisociality, aggression, and coercive sexual behavior. Moreover, childhood attachment independently predicted coercive sexual behavior after antisociality and aggression were statistically controlled. The hypothesis that paternal avoidant attachment would predict coercive sexual behavior independently of its relationship with aggression and antisociality was also supported. Posthoc analysis indicated that maternal anxious attachment was associated with antisociality and that paternal avoidant attachment was associated with both antisociality and coercive sexual behavior. These results are consistent with criminological and psychological research linking adverse early family experiences with offending and lend support to an attachment-theoretical framework for understanding offending behavior in general and sexual offending behavior in particular.

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The relations between adult attachment processes and sexuality were examined in a community sample of 792 young adults (327 men and 465 women) from the Niagara region of Canada. Participants completed questionnaires that included Simpson's (1990) measure of adult attachment, self‐reported physical attractiveness, erotophilia, and a variety of sexual behavior measures (e.g., number of sexual partners, age of first sexual experience, frequency of sexual behaviors in the past year, whether an affair had occurred in the past year, and consistent condom usage). The sexuality measures were factor analyzed to extract common factors. The results were modest, but a number of significant relationships between sexuality and attachment were observed. For example, people scoring higher on a secure attachment index perceived themselves as more physically attractive, whereas people scoring higher on an anxious attachment index perceived themselves as less physically attractive, had an early first intercourse (and more lifetime partners), more infidelity, and took more sexual precautions (e.g., condom usage). The results were generally stronger in women, with most of the attachment/sexuality associations in the full sample being driven by the results in women. Implications for understanding sexual variability, including high‐risk sexual behavior, are discussed.