A four year comparison of premarital sexual attitudes

Croake, James W.; James, Bárbara

doi:10.1080/00224497309550784

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“…These informal observations suggest, at the very least, a major change in attitudes toward increased sexual permissiveness. Several empirical studies support this conclusion (Croake & James, 1973;Reiss, 1966;Simon, 1969;Whatley & Appel, 1973). A further demonstration comes from studies showing generational differences in attitudes (Freeman, 1972;LoPiccolo, 1973;Orloff & Weinstock, 1975).…”

Section: Liberalization I N Sexcal Behaviormentioning

confidence: 92%

Sexual Behavior in Adolescence

Hopkins

1977

Journal of Social Issues

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Surveys conducted between the 1930s and 1970s on the sexual behavior of adolescents are reviewed. The paper, concentrating on coitus, focuses on the issue of liberalization in sexual behavior. Although there are large discrepancies in data from various surveys, and methodological difficulties associated with most of them, three major conclusions seem warranted. (a) A larger number of older adolescents (in the college years) are sexually experienced now than in earlier generations. (b) There has been a greater increase in incidence of premarital intercourse for females than males, although most surveys still report a higher absolute incidence for males. (c) While data for younger adolescents are less clear, they suggest a trend toward earlier sexual experience for both males and females.

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Section: Liberalization I N Sexcal Behaviormentioning

confidence: 92%

Sexual Behavior in Adolescence

Hopkins

1977

Journal of Social Issues

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“…There have been several previous studies on changes in sexuality over time. Many researchers have concluded that men's sexual attitudes before and after the sexual revolution in the late 1960s remained relatively consistent, whereas women's attitudes became much more liberal and permissive (e.g., Birenbaum, 1970; Ciabattari, 2001; Croake & James, 1973; Ehrenreich et al, 1986; Rubin, 1990). Changes in sexual behaviors have been even more dramatic.…”

Section: Previous Research On Changes In Sexualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Changes in Young People's Sexual Behavior and Attitudes, 1943–1999: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis

Wells

Twenge

2005

Review of General Psychology

150

103

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A cross-temporal meta-analysis of 530 studies ( N = 269,649) showed that young people's sexual attitudes and behavior changed substantially between 1943 and 1999, with the largest shifts occurring among girls and young women. Both young men and women became more sexually active over time, as measured by age at first intercourse (decreasing from 19 to 15 years among young women) and percentage sexually active (increasing from 13% to 47% among young women). Attitudes toward premarital intercourse became more lenient, with approval increasing from 12% to 73% among young women and from 40% to 79% among young men. Feelings of sexual guilt decreased. The correlation between attitudes and behaviors was stronger among young women. These data support theories positing that culture has a larger effect on women's sexuality.

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“…The sexual revolution provides strong evidence that there was some historical suppression of female sexuality. Indeed, the sexual revolution has been shown to have produced a greater change in female than in male sexuality (Arafat & Yorburg, 1973;Bauman & Wilson, 1974;Birenbaum, 1970;Croake & James, 1973;DeLamater & MacCorquodale, 1979;Ehrenreich, Hess, & Jacobs, 1986;R. Robinson, Ziss, Ganza, Katz, & Robinson, 1991;Rubin, 1990;Schmidt & Sigusch, 1972;Sherwin & Corbett, 1985;Staples, 1973).…”

Section: Milder Sex Drivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several historical treatments of the sexual revolution have explicitly observed that the change was greater for women than for men (Arafat & Yorburg, 1973;Birenbaum, 1970), and in fact it was a central point of the historical work by Ehrenreich et al (1986). A variety of empirical studies documented that women's sexual attitudes and behaviors changed more than men's during the 1960s to 1980s (Bauman & Wilson, 1974;Croake & James, 1973;DeLamater & MacCorquodale, 1979;R. Robinson et al, 1991;Schmidt & Sigusch, 1972;Sherwin & Corbett, 1985;Staples, 1973), such as by surveying the same college campus or same population at different time points and noting changes.…”

Section: The Sexual Revolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural Suppression of Female Sexuality

Baumeister

Twenge

2002

Review of General Psychology

287

195

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Four theories about cultural suppression of female sexuality are evaluated. Data are reviewed on cross-cultural differences in power and sex ratios, reactions to the sexual revolution, direct restraining influences on adolescent and adult female sexuality, double standard patterns of sexual morality, female genital surgery, legal and religious restrictions on sex, prostitution and pornography, and sexual deception. The view that men suppress female sexuality received hardly any support and is flatly contradicted by some findings. Instead, the evidence favors the view that women have worked to stifle each other's sexuality because sex is a limited resource that women use to negotiate with men, and scarcity gives women an advantage.

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A four year comparison of premarital sexual attitudes

Cited by 24 publications

References 6 publications

Sexual Behavior in Adolescence

Sexual Behavior in Adolescence

Changes in Young People's Sexual Behavior and Attitudes, 1943–1999: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis

Cultural Suppression of Female Sexuality

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