A Cross-Cultural Summary: Extramarital Sex

HRAF Press • New Haven, Connecticut • Published In • Pages: 385-401 •
By Textor, Robert B.

Abstract

Textor summarizes cross-cultural findings on extramarital sexual relations pertaining to cultural, environmental, psychological, and social phenomena.

Note

Extramarital sex is a section of, A Cross-Cultural Summary. Additionally, following each hypothesis are two sets of numbers enclosed in parenthesis: the first is the identification for the dependent variable and the second is the independent variable identification.

Samples

Sample Used Coded Data Comment
Ethnographic Atlas (EA)Previously Coded

Hypotheses (15)

HypothesisSupported
Extramarital sexual relations will be present in societies that are outside of South America (394, 9).Supported
Extramarital sexual relations will be present in societies where the extended family is small (394, 240).Supported
Extramarital sexual relations will be present in societies with low incidence of polygyny (394, 243).Marginally Supported
Extramarital sexual relations will be present in societies where the mother and nursing child typically sleep in the same bed (394, 315).Supported
Extramarital sexual relations will be present in societies with full-time religious specialists (394, 424).Supported
Extramarital sexual relations will be present in societies with a slight or moderate degree of insobriety (394, 476).Supported
The permission of extramarital sexual relations will be more common in societies where a writing system is absent (393, 78).Marginally Supported
The permission of extramarital sexual relations will be more common in societies with a low incidence of theft (393, 149).Supported
The permission of extramarital sexual relations will be more common in societies where marital residence is matrilocal or uxorilocal, instead of neolocal or ambilocal (393, 207).Marginally Supported
The permission of extramarital sex relations will be more common in societies where the desire for children is low or absent (393, 282).Supported
The permission of extramarital sexual relationships will be more common in societies where the severity of punishment for abortion is absent or low (393, 295).Supported
There will be less permission for extramarital sex relations in societies where the post-partum sex taboo lasts less than one month (393, 301).Marginally Supported
The permission of extramarital sex relations will be more frequent in societies with low levels of socialization anxiety (393, 308).Supported
The permission of extramarital sexual relations will be more common in societies where love magic is absent (393, 447).Marginally Supported
The permission of extramarital sexual relations will be more common in societies with lower levels of castration anxiety (393, 399).Supported
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