Adolescent Sex

Moore, Kristin A. (1995). Adolescent Sex, Contraception, and Childbearing. Information Analyses

This article talks about how the history of dating, marriage, and sexual experience has drastically changed over time. It was reported that women were marrying at younger ages in the 1950 than the 1920s and that those who delayed marriage, combined with an earlier age of first sexual experience, has resulted in a 50% increase in the likelihood that a teenage female would have premarital sex between the late 1950s and mid 1980s. As a result, 95% of sexually experienced teenagers in the 1980s were unmarried at first intercourse, compared with less than 60% in the late 1950s. It had also been concluded that a 27 percent increase in sexual experience among adolescents has become apparent throughout the past five decades (since this article has been published); that those between the ages of 13 and 16 are having their first sexual experiences.
Steve Miller