Mortality reminders make men denigrate sexually provocative women
Evidence
When women arouse men or remind them of their sexual feelings, men are forced to remember that they are creatures, too. And when intimations of mortality are involved, the desire to derogate comes to the fore. In one study, after men were reminded of death, they rated sexually provocative women less favorably than wholesome, modestly attired women. — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 605
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels the dress-panic logic in the immodesty essay: men project their own bodily anxiety onto how women dress. — connects to: Attitudes toward women’s flesh track how seriously men take their own death and destiny. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 364
Related
- Attitudes toward women’s flesh track how seriously men take their own death and destiny. (similarity 0.84)
- Death and sex reminders make men lenient toward male violence against women (similarity 0.82)
- Male violence against women partly stems from resentment of their own bodily arousal (similarity 0.79)