Date of Conferral

2023

Degree

Ph.D.

School

Human Services

Advisor

Gregory Hickman

Abstract

Researchers have named pleasure as a form of justice: a reclamation of the body and striving for happiness. For Black women, cultural messaging and lived experiences have led to sexual shame that can impact how individuals experience sexual satisfaction. This quantitative cross-section correlational study was conducted to assess the relationship between sexual shame and sexual satisfaction, the relationship between appropriated racial oppression and sexual satisfaction, and whether appropriated racial oppression moderated the relationship between sexual shame and sexual satisfaction in Black women. Moderating regression analysis was used to examine and understand the relationships between sexual shame and sexual satisfaction and appropriated racial oppression and sexual satisfaction and the extent to which appropriated racial oppression moderated the relationship between sexual shame and sexual satisfaction. A sample of 104 participants executed the Qualtrics survey. After incomplete submissions were removed, 70 participants were left. One outlier was removed to make the final data set 69. The results showed that: a) a statistically significant negative relationship was discovered between sexual shame and sexual satisfaction; b) no statistically significant relationships were found for the relationships between appropriated racial oppression; c) and no statistically significant relationship for the relationship of sexual satisfaction and appropriated racial oppression as a moderator between sexual shame and sexual satisfaction. The results of this study support greater praxis and positive social change by contributing to literature, mitigating sexual shame, and increasing quality of life and pleasure for Black women.

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