Study: Americans Still Puritanical About Sex

[marmar]

via AlterNet:




Miller-McCune.com / By Tom Jacobs

Study: Americans Still Puritanical About Sex
A new study shows that the Puritans' value system may remain lodged deep in our psyches, shaping our emotions, judgments and behaviors.

November 7, 2010 |


A cursory look at contemporary American culture suggests our ancestors’ Puritan values have been definitively discarded. Given the quick-money ethos of Wall Street, the hook-up culture of college students and the vast pornography industry, it seems clear that the colonists’ strict moral code -- pro-hard-work, anti-promiscuous-sex — is, for better or worse, behind us.

Well, hold onto your bonnets: The Puritans’ value system remains lodged deep in our psyches, shaping our emotions, judgments and behaviors. And its effects can be seen regardless of one’s political orientation or religious affiliation.

That’s the conclusion of a group of researchers led by Eric Luis Uhlmann of the HEC Paris School of Management. Writing in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the scholars -- including Yale University psychologist John Bargh -- present evidence of “an overarching American ethos” binding work, sex and salvation.

They describe a series of studies backing up this notion, including one that compares our implicit attitudes with those of our northern neighbors. It was conducted by questioning people passing through public parks in the state of New York and the Canadian province of Ontario. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/sex/148769/study%3A_americans_still_puritanical_about_sex/

[xchrom]

1. very interesting -- using anagrams and asian biculturalism --

there's stuff in there i would never even dream of.

[HopeHoops]

2. People who are puritanical about sex just don't get laid enough.

:evilgrin: