While much research has explored contemporary constructions of young women’s sexuality, few studies have been sensitive to how age influences women’s sexuality in the context of mainstream nightlife. Drawing on sexual scripting theory, I investigate how 19 Norwegian women (ages 27–34 years) draw on and negotiate cultural scripts when making sense of their nightlife experiences with age. I found that nightlife was an increasingly difficult space to occupy, and that participating could cause tension with the women’s understandings of themselves, their behaviours and their desires in nightlife. While age-related scripts allowed the participants to criticise gender inequality in sexual interaction in nightlife, they simultaneously obscured how gender inequality in nightlife persisted in new forms with age.

虽然许多研究探索了年轻女性性行为的当代结构，但很少有研究对年龄如何影响主流夜生活背景下的女性性行为敏感。借鉴性脚本理论，我调查了 19 名挪威女性（27-34 岁）在理解他们的夜生活体验随着年龄的增长时如何借鉴和协商文化脚本。我发现夜生活是一个越来越难以占据的空间，而参与可能会导致女性对自己、行为和夜生活欲望的理解变得紧张。虽然与年龄相关的脚本允许参与者批评夜生活中性互动中的性别不平等，但它们同时掩盖了夜生活中的性别不平等如何随着年龄的增长而以新的形式持续存在。