WGST 2812 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sexting, Suicide Of Amanda Todd, Premarital Sex

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 2812
• Professor: Anuppiriya Sriskandarajah

Document Summary

Week 11: nov 17 discussion nov 17 - gender sexuality and technology. Sex among young people age 15-19 has actually gone down in the past 20 years. Betwee(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1012) a(cid:374)d (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1010) (cid:1005)(cid:1004)% of fe(cid:373)ales who had experie(cid:374)(cid:272)ed sex dropped fro(cid:373) (cid:1009)(cid:1005)% to (cid:1008)(cid:1007)% For males it fell from 60% to 42% Youth that have sex for the first time before age 13 is very small and decreasing (10. 29% in 1991, to 6. 2% in 2011) Young people have more sexual partners that their grandparent"s generation. Young people are staying single longer, and relationships are not as long so they go through more partners. Early marriage, restricted access to birth control, societal disapproval of premarital sex kept the average number of sexual partners low. Most teenagers who are having sex are mostly monogamous. 15% of teenagers have had 4 or more sexual partners.