Sexual attitudes and behavior patterns in a middle-class adolescent population.

Abstract

Sexual activities and attitudes of a group of adolescents, who have been followed from early infancy as a part of the New York Longitudinal Study, are reported. Adolescents in the study evince a more matter-of-fact, less fearful attitude than that of previous generations, but do not seem more prone to casual sexual encounters. Sexual conflicts are seen to occur only in relation to overall psychological conflict.