The relationship between the sexual and nonsexual aspects of male-
female interaction across cultures is explored. Results indicate that societies are
neither entirely consistent nor entirely arbitrary in their patterning of heterosexual
relationships. Three clusters or dimensions of opposite-sex interaction were isolated
so that variables within a cluster were highly correlated and variables in different
clusters were largely unrelated. This research suggests that sexual relationships,
nonsexual intimacy, and male sexual orientation are not highly related to each
other.
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