Question

Discusses the beliefs and assumptions that gender role expectations have on an individual’s sexual experience.

Answer 1

The beliefs and assumptions that gender role expectations have on an individual’s sexual experience employ those sets of behaviors as rules to be applied to all males and females. Women have traditionally been regarded as more delicate and compassionate than men. Stereotypes for femininity include expectations to be domestic, warm, pretty, emotional, dependent, physically weak, and passive in western society. By contrast, men are thought of as being more competitive and less emotional than women. Masculinity stereotypes are described as being unemotional, physically strong, independent, active, and aggressive. These stereotypes affect the sexual behavior such as who is expected to initiate the sexual behavior. Generally due to the stereotypes the male is supposed to initiate and engage in sexual behavior first.