Sexual Relationship Among Romantic Partners - 1473 Words

A recent study of sexual relationship among Romantic Partners, Friends, Friends with Benefits, and Casual Acquaintances as Sexual Partners was conducted by two researchers Wyndol Furman from the Department of Psychology, University of Denver and Laura Shaffer from the Department of Psychology, University of Louisville Schools of Medicine. Authors, through their intensive research and sample studies, interviews and questionnaires, have examined and concluded their findings on sexual behaviors with different partners. Their research was mainly focused on sexual relationships in romantic married and cohabitating couples versus nonromantic young adults and adolescent partners. They believe sexual behavior mostly occurred among nonromantic†¦show more content†¦2011). And, the purpose of conducting the research study was to examine sexual behavior among different types of partners. They explained three levels of sexual behavior with partners by explaining â€Å"Light†, â€Å"Heavy†, and Genital acts to measure the affection status with partners. Based on the existing literature (e.g. Grello et al., 2006; Manning et al., 2006), Authors believe that young adults would be more likely to engage in light nongenital, heavy nongenital, and genital sexual behaviors with romantic partners than with nonromantic partners of any type (Furman, W., Shaffer, L. 2011). Method and Measures Participants of the research were part of a longitudinal study which investigated the relationship in peers, romantic partner, parents, adolescence and young adulthood. For the research, 200 high schools students mostly of whom 10th grade boys and girls were recruited from ages 14-16 from various ethnicity and diverse neighborhoods, schools and metropolitan areas to conduct the research study. The sample included 11.5% African American, 12.5% Hispanic, 1.5% Native American, 1% Asian American, 4% biracial, and 69.5% White (non-Hispanic) (Furman, W., Shaffer, L. 2011). The sample was of average intelligence and did not differ from national norms on 11 of 12 measures of adjustment (see Furman, Low, Ho, 2009).