ABSTRACT
It is important to have psychometrically sound measures of various types of sexual attitudes because sexual attitudes are related to sexual health and sexual behavior. There are few measures focused on attitudes toward specific sexual behaviors. In addition, existing sexual attitude measures do not include items that assess online sexual behaviors and/or the context in which sexual behaviors occur. The latter is particularly important because the likelihood of engaging in a specific behavior in a particular context is best predicted by attitudes toward that behavior in that context (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1977). The Attitudes Toward Sexual Behaviours Scale (ASBS; Blanc & Rojas, 2018) was developed to fill these gaps. The ASBS assesses the attitudes toward specific sexual behaviors in different contexts. The ASBS includes items referring to dyadic sexual behaviors with a steady and a casual partner, solitary sexual behaviors when a person has a partner and does not have a partner, and sexual behaviors with more than one person at the same time. Dyadic sexual behaviors included are caressing/touching, penile–vaginal sexual intercourse, partnered masturbation, oral sex, anal sex, sexting, and cybersex. Solitary sexual behaviors included are solitary masturbation and sexual fantasies. Sexual behaviors with more than one person at the same time included are threesomes and group sex. The ASBS also includes items referring to the use of erotic material, such as erotic magazines and books and erotic movies. The ASBS may be a useful tool to predict specific sexual behaviors in different contexts.
