ABSTRACT
Low-income heterosexual young men, like their middle-class counterparts, seek the company of young women for a variety of reasons. Some seek out young women for companionship, intimacy or sexual pleasure. Some young men establish committed relationships with women to start a family or long-term partnership. Others seek to show their male friends that they have achieved sexual conquests and mainly see women as objects for their sexual pleasure. Within these examples, there is tremendous diversity in the ways that heterosexual young men interact with and treat young women-from callous, misogynistic or machista at one end of the spectrum to more gender-equitable or respectful of the equal rights of young women at the other.
