Sexual capital can be present in both secular and religious settings. Willey has shown that in an Evangelical youth group, sexual and erotic capital still play a role in partner selection. [14] Young adults often find a romantic interest in their church groups, often by choosing a partner who has sought-after traits, or a desirable personal capital portfolio. [14]Within the Evangelical youth groups studied, sexual capital was displayed as virginal capital, in which an individual was considered more romantically desirable by the group when they had not engaged in sexual activity. [14] Additionally, some studies point out how adolescents may reduce their religious involvement around their sexual debut. [28] Pentecostal adolescents in Cape Town were shown to reduce their church attendance in early adulthood, with some resuming their previous attendance after finding a long-term partner. [28] These studies show some of the effects of religion on influencing sexual behavior norms of a community. While limited studies have been conducted on the effects of sexual and erotic capital within other religious communities, much has been written on how religion has shaped human sexuality. Farrer, James C. (2010). "A foreign adventurer's paradise? Interracial sexuality and alien sexual capital in reform era Shanghai". Sexualities. 13 (1): 69–95. doi: 10.1177/1363460709352726. S2CID 144501924.

Sexuality ("sexual competence, energy, erotic imagination, playfulness, and everything else that makes for a sexually satisfying partner" [14]) a b c Green, Adam Isaiah (1 January 2013). " 'Erotic capital' and the power of desirability: Why 'honey money' is a bad collective strategy for remedying gender inequality". Sexualities. 16 (1–2): 137–158. doi: 10.1177/1363460712471109. ISSN 1363-4607. S2CID 143070896. Callander, Denton; Holt, Martin; Newman, Christy E. (1 February 2016). " 'Not everyone's gonna like me': Accounting for race and racism in sex and dating web services for gay and bisexual men". Ethnicities. 16 (1): 3–21. doi: 10.1177/1468796815581428. ISSN 1468-7968. S2CID 147130084.

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Lucidly the book analyses how little sexuality has to do with us and how much it has to do with society.« Silke Weber, DIE ZEIT Erotic capital is not only a major asset in mating and marriage markets, but can also be important in labour markets, the media, politics, advertising, sports, Social presentation ("style of dress, face-painting, perfume, jewelry, hairstyles, and the various accessories that people carry or wear to announce their social status and style to the world" [14]) Hamermesh, Daniel S; Biddle, Jeff E (November 1993). "Beauty and the Labor Market". Working Paper Series. doi: 10.3386/w4518. a b Hakim, Catherine (6 September 2011). Erotic Capital: The Power of Attraction in the Boardroom and the Bedroom. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02747-7.

Hakim, Catherine (2010). "Erotic capital". European Sociological Review. 26 (5): 499–518. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcq014. S2CID 198118608. Sexual capital (or erotic capital) is the social value an individual or social group gets as a function of their sexual attractiveness. Like other forms of economic capital, sexual capital can be converted to other forms of capital. [1] [2] [3] [4] Sexual capital can be useful in getting social or economic capital. [4] British sociologist Catherine Hakim first used the term "erotic capital", in the early 2000s. French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu had already defined other forms of capital, such as economic, cultural, or social capital. Hakim saw sexual capital as different. She says erotic capital is independent of class origin; for this reason, it enables social mobility. Hakim argues that this makes erotic capital socially subversive, which results in the prevailing power structures devaluing and trying to suppress it. [5] In the manosphere, the parallel term sexual market value or its abbreviation SMV is often used. [6] A second definition is developed by Hakim, treating erotic capital as the fourth personal asset. This definition is a multifaceted combination of physical and social attractiveness that goes well beyond sexual attractiveness that is the focus of the 'fields' perspective. Unlike Green's conception of sexual capital, Hakim's erotic capital is an individual capital with no necessary referent to a field. [2] Second, the admirable success of the book is that the authors use the metaphor of sexual capital as both a historical variable and an analytical framework. On the one hand, sexual capital is not a fixed phenomenon since it manifests in historical forms of the blurring boundaries between the public and private spheres. On the other hand, the metaphor of sexual capital seems to function as a methodological tool as it helps scholars to scrutinize the interplay between the (seemingly) separate public sphere of economy and private domain of sex(uality). prohibitions on women's sexual, social, and economic activities and women's exploitation of their erotic capital.Green, Adam Isaiah (2008). "Health and Sexual Status in an Urban Gay Enclave: An Application of the Stress Process Model". Journal of Health and Social Behavior. American Sociological Association. 49 (4): 436–451. doi: 10.1177/002214650804900405. PMID 19181048. S2CID 32929594. Singh, Devendra (1995). "Female judgment of male attractiveness and desirability for relationships: Role of waist-to-hip ratio and financial status". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 69 (6): 1089–1101. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.69.6.1089. ISSN 1939-1315. PMID 8531056. Hamermesh, Daniel S; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Junsen (1 July 2002). "Dress for success—does primping pay?" (PDF). Labour Economics. 9 (3): 361–373. doi: 10.1016/S0927-5371(02)00014-3. ISSN 0927-5371. They show that sexual capital can take different, historically conditioned forms, which at times also coexist. Their main focus is on the specifics of neoliberal sexuality, which is accompanied by its very own kind of sexual capital.

Theories of Sexual Stratification: Toward an Analytics of the Sexual. Field and a Theory of Sexual Capital*. John Levi Martin. Hakim, Catherine (2011). Erotic Capital: The Power of Attraction in the Boardroom and the Bedroom. Basic Books. pp.16–18. ISBN 978-0465027477.

Michael, Robert T. (2004). "Sexual Capital: An extension of Grossman's concept of health capital". Journal of Health Economics. 23 (4): 643–652. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2004.04.003. PMID 15587691. a b c d e f Hakim, Catherine (2010). "Erotic capital". European Sociological Review. 26 (5): 499–518. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcq014. S2CID 198118608. Sexual capital may be related to both sexual and mental health, as when individuals with low sexual capital show diminished ability to talk about or negotiate condom use with a partner possessing greater erotic capital, and develop negative emotional states as a consequence of feeling unattractive. [16] It discusses how the women develop and mobilize their sexual capital, using their bodies and sexual practices to constitute themselves as erotic Boysen, Benjamin. "Houellebecq's Priapism: The Failure of Sexual Liberation in Michel Houellebecq's Novels and Essays." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 43.3 (2016): 477–497.