HDFS 1060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Br Postcode Area, Human Sexuality, Imaginary Audience

• School: UConn
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS 1060
• Professor: Ronald Sabatelli

Document Summary

Age of initiation: has come down a lot, kids begin to have experimentations with sex starting as early as 13. Percent sexually active: has gone up since the 50s, around the 2000s about 80% of males and 70% of females have had intercourse by the time they were 19. In the recent data, it has gone down by 10% Closing of the gender gap: historically there were always teen boys that were more sexually active than teen girls. Now it is just as likely for girls to jump into sexual experience as it is for boys. Changes in gatekeeping standards: scripts for youth have changed overtime from a religious view of sexuality, especially for girls that waited to have sex until they were with someone that they knew they were gonna get married. There"s many more girls willing to have sex before they are committed for the recreational fun" purpose of it.