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The Centerfold Syndrome
In his articulation of the gender role strain paradigm, Pleck (1981, 1995) noted that contemporary men are plagued by role prescriptions and proscriptions that are both internally inconsistent and, in many ways, psychologically dysfunctional. The inconsistent and dysfunctional aspects of the male gender role are nowhere more obvious than in the area of male sexuality. In this chapter, I describe the Centerfold Syndrome, a set of psychosexual attitudes and behaviors that is characteristic of most heterosexual men (some more than others) as well as reflective of the many ways in which normative male sexuality is problematic.
