ABSTRACT

Sexual health includes positive aspects of sexuality and the possibility of having pleasurable sexual experiences. However, few researchers examine how socioeconomic conditions shape sexual wellbeing. This paper presents the concept of “erotic equity,” which refers to how social and structural systems enable, or fail to enable, positive aspects of sexuality. In part one, we use this concept to consider potential pathways through which socioeconomic conditions, especially poverty, may shape sexuality. Part two builds from this theoretical framework to review the empirical literature that documents associations between socioeconomics and sexual wellbeing. This narrative review process located 47 studies from more than 22 countries. Forty-four studies indicated that individuals who reported more constrained socioeconomic conditions, primarily along the lines of income, education, and occupation, also reported poorer indicators of sexual wellbeing, especially satisfaction and overall functioning. Most studies used unidimensional measures of socioeconomic status, treating them as individual-level control variables; few documented socioeconomics as structural pathways through which erotic inequities may arise. Based on these limitations, in part three we make calls for the integration of socioeconomic conditions into sexuality researchers’ paradigms of multi-level influences on sexuality.

摘要

性健康包括性行为的积极方面和获得愉快性体验的可能性。然而，很少有研究人员研究社会经济条件如何影响性健康。本文介绍了“色情公平”的概念，它指的是社会和结构系统如何促成或未能促成性的积极方面。在第一部分中，我们使用这个概念来考虑社会经济条件（尤其是贫困）可能塑造性行为的潜在途径。第二部分以这一理论框架为基础，回顾记录社会经济学与性健康之间关联的实证文献。这一叙述性审查过程定位了来自超过 22 个国家的 47 项研究。44 项研究表明，那些报告社会经济条件更受限制的人，主要是在收入、教育和职业方面，还报告了较差的性健康指标，尤其是满意度和整体功能。大多数研究使用社会经济地位的单维测量，将它们视为个人水平的控制变量；很少有人将社会经济学记录为可能产生色情不平等的结构性途径。基于这些局限性，在第三部分中，我们呼吁将社会经济条件整合到性研究人员对性的多层次影响的范式中。很少有人将社会经济学记录为可能产生色情不平等的结构性途径。基于这些局限性，在第三部分中，我们呼吁将社会经济条件整合到性研究人员对性的多层次影响的范式中。很少有人将社会经济学记录为可能产生色情不平等的结构性途径。基于这些局限性，在第三部分中，我们呼吁将社会经济条件整合到性研究人员对性的多层次影响的范式中。