Reframing Sexting as a Positive Relationship Behavior [pdf]
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This is another one of those low-end studies where somebody put a psych questionnaire on Mechanical Turk because it was easy. The joke in psych used to be that psychology was the study of grad students, because they were easily available for study and so many studies used them. Now it's people who have free time and few skills trying to make money on Mechanical Turk.
> Broad claims about human psychology and behavior based on narrow samples from Western societies are regularly published. Are such species‐generalizing claims justified? This review suggests not only substantial variability in experimental results across populations in basic domains, but that standard subjects are unusual compared with the rest of the species— outliers. The domains reviewed include visual perception, fairness, spatial reasoning, moral reasoning, thinking‐styles, and self ‐ concepts. This suggests (1) caution in addressing questions of human nature from this slice of humanity, and (2) that understanding human psychology will require broader subject pools. We close by proposing ways to address these challenges.
It just might be much much worse than that [0]. It seems that people sometimes discuss questionnaires with other study participants, and that sometimes the same people, while answering different questionnaires, will end up answering the same questions over and over again, if the questionnaires overlap (as they commonly do).
[0] http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2013/7/10/fooled-twice... http://andrewgelman.com/2015/08/10/dan-kahan-doesnt-trust-th...
Although I appreciate the evidence that the sexting isn't harmful to relationships, I think this study is basically stating "People with healthy sexual relationships often have healthy overall relationships. (p = Duh.)"
Totally!
Candidly; I sext a LOT. It IS a skill such as foreplay... I only mesh well with others who have the same propensity for sexting. Also - I am 40, and those with whom I sext are in my age range +/-5 years...
It is not a young thing by any means. It is also not a new thing.
(Edit: Assuming all parties involved are consenting adults.)
A) Weird
B) Perverted
C) A good way to have your sex life plastered over the internet.
D) A good way for the NSA and cell phone provider to know all about your sex life.
B) See A. You say this like it's a bad thing.
C) The fact that this is true doesn't make it good or bad. One person's nightmare, is another's acceptable risk, is another's pleasure.
D) See C. As a side note: If the NSA spends countless dollars cataloging private citizens sexual interests rather than protecting United States security, then there are much much larger issues to worry about. (And frankly, there probably are)
Edited to fix typos and spelling issues.
But as long as a significant number of people feel that way, it has a social impact.
A little bit of both, honestly.
> It's very much the on-trend "what's the matter with kids these days" issue, carrying on the age-old tradition of condemning bare ankles, short skirts, dirty dancing, pre-marital cohabitation, etc.
Great point. Agreed.