Abstract
I am delighted and honored to be invited to address you as one of the 1997 Gallagher lecturers. As you know adolescent sexuality has changed dramatically during the past 40 years. In the 1950s petting was the most common intimate teenage sexual experience adolescents reached physical maturity later and married earlier and teenage intercourse was uncommon except among the oldest and engaged or married adolescents. Patterns of sexual behavior differed widely between young men and young women as well as among youth from different backgrounds. Todays teenagers reach physical maturity earlier and marry later. There has been a steady increase in the percentage of young people having sexual intercourse and in the percentage doing so at younger and younger ages. Almost all teenagers experiment with some type of sexual behavior. Patterns of sexual activity are now fairly similar between young men and women and among young people from different ethnic socioeconomic and religious groups. (excerpt)
Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callDisclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
