Abstract
This paper is focused on the relationship between self-image and sexuality. It is suggested that self-image has several components: self-esteem, evaluation of self as social actor, evaluation of self as moral, and body image, or evaluation of one's physical attributes. Sexuality is viewed as comprised of both attitudinal and behavioral components. Measures of each were included in interviews with random samples of college students (N = 856) and nonstudents (N = 511). The previously reported relationship between self-esteem and permissiveness is not found. Instead, the results indicate a significant association between perceived social desirability and sexual behavior and, as predicted, between evaluations of some bodily characteristics and sexual experience. These associations are found among both men and women.
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