| Abstract: | Changes in sexual activities and attitudes of today's (1974) youth are reviewed. It is concluded that adolescent sexual behavior is not much different from what it was in the last decade, although young people tend to have their 1st sexual experience earlier than in the past and tend to talk about sex more openly. The percent of women who are not virgins at marriage is not markedly higher than it was in the 1920s, nor has the incidence of school-age unwed mothers increased in the last few years. It has become increasingly popular for young, unmarried men and women to live together in recent years and coed dorms have become more widespread, although little sexual activity occurs among the inhabitants of these dorms. The incidence of premarital sex among engaged couples has increased. Young and middle-aged couples today are more ready to experiment with variations in foreplay and coitus. Homosexuals live more comfortably with their sexual behavior and the rate of transexualism has risen. Drug users are more likely to have coitus earler in life, more regularly, and with a greater number of partners. |
