Exploring Attitudes Toward "Sugar Relationships" Across 87 Countries: A Global Perspective on Exchanges of Resources for Sex and Companionship.

Cross-cultural comparison Human mating Resources for sex Sugar relationships

Journal

Archives of sexual behavior

ISSN: 1573-2800

Titre abrégé: Arch Sex Behav

Pays: United States

ID NLM: 1273516

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Date de publication:
21 Dec 2023

Historique:

received: 10 02 2023

accepted: 05 10 2023

revised: 05 10 2023

medline: 21 12 2023

pubmed: 21 12 2023

entrez: 21 12 2023

Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

The current study investigates attitudes toward one form of sex for resources: the so-called sugar relationships, which often involve exchanges of resources for sex and/or companionship. The present study examined associations among attitudes toward sugar relationships and relevant variables (e.g., sex, sociosexuality, gender inequality, parasitic exposure) in 69,924 participants across 87 countries. Two self-report measures of Acceptance of Sugar Relationships (ASR) developed for younger companion providers (ASR-YWMS) and older resource providers (ASR-OMWS) were translated into 37 languages. We tested cross-sex and cross-linguistic construct equivalence, cross-cultural invariance in sex differences, and the importance of the hypothetical predictors of ASR. Both measures showed adequate psychometric properties in all languages (except the Persian version of ASR-YWMS). Results partially supported our hypotheses and were consistent with previous theoretical considerations and empirical evidence on human mating. For example, at the individual level, sociosexual orientation, traditional gender roles, and pathogen prevalence were significant predictors of both ASR-YWMS and ASR-OMWS. At the country level, gender inequality and parasite stress positively predicted the ASR-YWMS. However, being a woman negatively predicted the ASR-OMWS, but positively predicted the ASR-YWMS. At country-level, ingroup favoritism and parasite stress positively predicted the ASR-OMWS. Furthermore, significant cross-subregional differences were found in the openness to sugar relationships (both ASR-YWMS and ASR-OMWS scores) across subregions. Finally, significant differences were found between ASR-YWMS and ASR-OMWS when compared in each subregion. The ASR-YWMS was significantly higher than the ASR-OMWS in all subregions, except for Northern Africa and Western Asia.

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DOI: 10.1007/s10508-023-02724-1 PMID: 38127113

pubmed: 38127113

doi: 10.1007/s10508-023-02724-1

pii: 10.1007/s10508-023-02724-1

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Organisme : Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)

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Organisme : University of Pécs

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