ABSTRACT

Many patrons in nightlife settings around the world experience and engage in behavior that some find distressing and others find a useful method of interacting with potential sexual partners. Some of these behaviors nevertheless meet the World Health Organizations’ definition of sexual violence. Recent research suggests the social norms in Australian nightlife settings might be encouraging patrons to engage in or tolerate sexual violence when it occurs, even though it violates their own personal norms. Our main aim was to clarify young Australian nightlife patrons’ personal and descriptive norms regarding three sexual behaviors (Kissing, Grabbing and Grinding), to identify their injunctive norms, and to investigate how gender and consent affected these norms. A further aim was to explore the relationships between the different types of social norms to understand how they work together to influence and perpetuate nightlife patrons’ perceptions of these behaviors. We used an anonymous online survey to collect data from 197 young Australian nightlife patrons. We found that both genders think these behaviors are significantly more unacceptable than they think their peers do and are less acceptable if performed by men, yet they believe these behaviors are typical of men.

摘要

世界各地夜生活环境中的许多顾客都经历并参与了一些令人痛苦的行为，而另一些人则发现了与潜在性伴侣互动的有用方法。然而，其中一些行为符合世界卫生组织对性暴力的定义。最近的研究表明，澳大利亚夜生活环境中的社会规范可能会鼓励顾客在发生性暴力时参与或容忍性暴力，即使这违反了他们自己的个人规范。我们的主要目的是阐明年轻的澳大利亚夜生活顾客关于三种性行为（接吻、抓取和磨削）的个人和描述性规范，确定他们的禁令规范，并调查性别和同意如何影响这些规范。另一个目的是探索不同类型的社会规范之间的关系，以了解它们如何共同影响和延续夜生活顾客对这些行为的看法。我们使用匿名在线调查从 197 名年轻的澳大利亚夜生活顾客那里收集数据。我们发现，两性都认为这些行为比他们认为同龄人更不可接受，并且如果由男性执行，则更不可接受，但他们认为这些行为是男性的典型行为。