How Does the Difference in the Content of Sex Education Affect the Effectiveness of Lowering the Sexual Double Standard Level?

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10.2991/assehr.k.220704.225How to use a DOI?

Keywords

sexual double standard; sex education; IAT

Abstract

Sexual double standards (SDS) have been proven to exist, and it has many negative effects, such as leading to confirmation bias (Marks and Fraley, 2006) and harm to women’s health. However, new research has found that sex education during school age can effectively reduce people’s SDS levels. Further thinking, specifically, which part of sex education can most effectively promote the reduction of SDS? We divide the content of sex education into two aspects: physical knowledge sex education and sexual attitude education. In the experiment, we used The Implicit Association (IAT) test to test participants’ implicit SDS. The results showed that the SDS level was reduced to the same extent only by the attitude education supplemented by the physiological knowledge education, followed by the only physiological knowledge education, and finally by the no sex education. We hope that through this study, we can promote the development of school-age education in China and encourage teachers to carry out sex education classes, not only to popularize physiological knowledge but also to pay attention to the education of sexual attitude.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ruoyu Wu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/11
TI  - How Does the Difference in the Content of Sex Education Affect the Effectiveness of Lowering the Sexual Double Standard Level?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1239
EP  - 1243
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220704.225
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220704.225
ID  - Wu2022
ER  -