Although women are expected to idealize and achieve hegemonic feminine beauty standards such as being slender and lighter skinned, few studies have examined how women’s investment in achieving these restrictive feminine appearance ideals may influence their sexual attitudes and behaviors. Even less is known about Black women. We surveyed 640 Black college women to test hypotheses that endorsement of hegemonic beauty ideals would be positively associated with four dimensions of negative sexual affect (sexual guilt, shame, emotional distancing, and self-consciousness) and negatively associated with two dimensions of sexual agency (sexual assertiveness and satisfaction). Correlation and regression analyses showed that hegemonic beauty ideal acceptance was linked with greater sexual guilt, shame, emotional distancing, and sexual self-consciousness in addition to lower levels of sexual assertiveness and satisfaction. Findings highlight how endorsing restrictive, hegemonic standards of beauty is associated with Black women’s reduced sexual affect and sexual agency.

尽管人们期望女性理想化并实现霸权的女性美标准，例如苗条和肤色较浅，但很少有研究调查女性为实现这些限制性的女性外貌理想而进行的投资如何影响她们的性态度和行为。对黑人女性的了解就更少了。我们调查了 640 名黑人大学女性，以检验以下假设：对霸权美理想的认可与负面性影响的四个维度（性内疚、羞耻、情感疏远和自我意识）呈正相关，并与性能动性的两个维度呈负相关（性自信和满足）。相关性和回归分析表明，霸权美的理想接受与更大的性内疚、羞耻、情感疏远、除了较低水平的性自信和满足感之外，还有性自我意识。调查结果强调了支持限制性的、霸权的美的标准与黑人女性减少性影响和性能动性之间的关系。