性行为的发展

性行为的发展概述: 性脚本之说

性脚本的采用——相互作用的过程

性脚本的采用是一个相互作用的过程，在这个过程中，个体和社会共同作用达成相互可接纳的结局。这常常需要一些折中和调整。例如：

社会环境为适当的性别角色提供一个性脚本，而个体要么接受，要么拒绝，或只是部分地接受，或改变它以适合个体特殊的需要。然后，这会引起社会做出反应，或者以赞扬和支持的方式做出反应，或者以不赞成或责备的方式做出反应。继而，这种反应可能削弱或加强这个个体接受这个性脚本的意愿；于是，这种相互作用再一次引起另一轮的社会反应，如此这般。为性欲行为和生殖行为规定的社会脚本符合上述同一原理。接纳或拒绝这些脚本会随着不断地“讨价还价”和反反复复，可能需要一个长期和曲折的过程。这得极大地依赖于这些脚本本身的刚性和弹性而定，还得依赖于这些脚本被提供的方式或途径而定。一些个体很容易顺从社会的期待，而另一些个体会拒绝社会的规定，甚或奋起而造反。继而，这可能导致非常不同的社会反应——从彻底的压抑、勉强的容忍到强勉地做出调整——而这个个体也以同样的方式可能或不可能做出反应。依据各个具体案例不同，在这样的矛盾冲突解决之前，这可能需要一个长期的磨合过程。

个体与社会环境之间的相互作用
这个十分简要的图表用图示说明这种基本的反馈机制。一个个体（红色小人）从各种来源（灰色大箭头背景中的字母片断）获得了多种多样的脚本。然而，这个个体的反应（红色箭头）会以某种方式（把这个脚本起初的黑色字母转变成红色字母）改变这个脚本的局部。这个经过修改并最终被接受的脚本就是这种相互作用过程的产物。

一旦我们认识到，在我们生活的现代社会里，个体通常不是面对一个或两个，而是面对许多相互竞争的性脚本，那么，性脚本形成的结果甚至变得尤其复杂了。

Introduction: A Script?

An Interactive Process

The adoption of a sexual script is an interactive process, in which the individual and society negotiate a mutually acceptable outcome. This often requires some compromise or modification. For example:
The social environment offers a script for the proper gender role, and the individual accepts or rejects it, or accepts it only in part, or changes it to suit special personal needs. This then provokes a social reaction, either in the form of praise and support or in some form of disapproval or censure. This reaction, in turn, may weaken or strengthen the individual’s willingness to accept the script, which again provokes another social reaction, and so on.
The same is true of the social scripts for erotic and reproductive behavior. Adopting or rejecting these scripts may be a long, tortuous process with many twists and turns. Very much depends on the rigidity or flexibility of the scripts themselves and on the way they are being offered. Some individuals conform very easily to social expectations, but others refuse or even rebel. This, in turn, can lead to very different social reactions - from outright repression to uneasy tolerance to reluctant accommodation - and the individual may or may not respond in kind. Depending on the case, it may take a long time, before such conflicts are resolved.

The issue of scripting becomes even more complicated once we realize that in our modern world individuals are usually faced not with one or two, but with many competing sexual scripts.