Sex guilt correlates with both low sexual activity and higher sexual aggression in authoritarians.

Evidence

These trends were replicated by Walker, Rowe, and Quinsey (1993). RWA scores correlated . with admitted acts of sexual aggression on the Sexual Experiences Survey among 59 students, and . among 75 nonstudents. High RWA men were also more likely, at .53, to report experiencing sex guilt (Mosher, 1988), which usually predicts low levels of sexual behavior. But sex guilt also correlated positively (.23) with sexual aggression in this study. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 389 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The major alternative to the personality dynamic explanation of the covariation is the suggestion that the traits of the authoritarian cohere simply because they are the norms of people with little education and low SES. For each particular trait one could work out some plausible derivation from one or another aspect of SES. The dynamic explanation would make the coherence tighter by showing how one trait supports another, not logically but in terms of the needs and defenses postulated by psychoanalytic theory. It is likely that both sets of forces—the dynamic interrelations as well as the ties with status and education—cooperate to hold this mosaic together. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 653 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sex guilt paradoxically correlates with both low sexual behavior and sexual aggression — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 389; Authoritarian and nonauthoritarian students differ in sexual behavior — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2200; Authoritarians no longer differ from nonauthoritarians in sexual behavior (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Sex guilt paradoxically correlates with both low sexual behavior and sexual aggression #corroborates (0.97) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 389
• Authoritarian traits may cohere from low education and SES, not psychodynamics #complicates (0.76) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 653