Abstract
Sexual script theory provides a framework to understand how sexuality is socially constructed rather than biologically determined and innate. This chapter draws on interviews with 105 heterosexual and LGBTQ young adults about their dating rituals to demonstrate how sexual scripts work in practice. Heterosexual young adults use mainstream cultural schemas about appropriate behaviors for men and women to guide their gender-differentiated practices. LGBTQ young adults, on the other hand, draw on queer cultural schemas to develop oppositional dating behaviors designed to challenge normative relationship practices. Both pathways show how sexual and romantic behaviors only draw meaning from the context in which they occur, indicating that sexuality is fundamentally a social experience.
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