Paper Title
The Confluence Model as an Organizing Framework for Research on Sexually Aggressive Men: Risk Moderators, Imagined Aggression, and Pornography Consumption
Keywords
- Confluence Model
- Sexually Aggressive Men
- Risk Moderators
- Imagined Aggression
- Pornography Consumption
- Sexual Aggression
- Coercive Sexual Fantasies
- Attraction to Sexual Aggression
- Evolutionary Framework
- Promiscuous Sexual Orientation Model
- Home Environment Influence
- Impersonal Sex Orientation
- Acting Out Behaviors
- Sexual Context Aggression
- Cumulative Research Program
- General Population Studies
Journal
Research Impact Tools
Publication Info
| Pages: 229-245
Published On
February, 1998
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Abstract
This chapter describes the recent developments in a research program studying the characteristics of sexually aggressive men identified in general population samples. The chapter has attempted to organize this line of research in a way that the earlier studies are used to build upon and inform the subsequent ones, with the goal of benefitting from the cumulative character of a systematic research program. The efforts of the recent studies highlighted in the chapter centers on three areas: a dimension moderating the relationship between risk factors that could lead to aggression and manifested aggression, the role of imagined sexual aggression, and the association between use of pornographic material and sexual aggression in real world settings. Two lines of research have studied the characteristics of men who report imagining themselves being sexually aggressive. One has concentrated on assessing coercive sexual fantasies whereas the other has concentrated on attraction to sexual aggression. The chapter presents an evolutionary framework which states that the mobilization of the type of attitudes and emotions encompassed in this path may increase the likelihood and effectiveness of aggressive behaviors used in a sexual context. According to the promiscuous sexual orientation model, early (for example, home) exposure to certain conflicted or harsh environments can have important effects on increasing the likelihood of a promiscuous/impersonal sex orientation, mediated by various other “acting out” behaviors as the individual matures.
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