FRHD 2280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Premarital Sex, Teenage Pregnancy, Trobriand Islands
17 May 2017
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Adults in these cultures tend to ignore evidence of pre-marital sex as long as young people are fairly discreet. If pregnancy results from sex forced to get married. In some sexual behaviours even encouraged in childhood (people of trobriand islands girls as young as. 6-8, boys 10-12 receive explicit instructions from older campaigns and even engage) Now a days these cultures are less permissive. Note: american society viewed as more restrictive in 1951, now a days less restrictive and more semirestrictive. Even though parents usually don"t approve they usually understand that it will happen and look the other way. 60% of adults thought premarital sex among teens ewes wrong (early adolescents but not necessarily late adolescents) Similar, it is common like in western countries but somewhat less in south america. Big difference than in countries like brazil and chile suggest adolescent males over exaggerate and females under exaggerate. Less common in asian countries female virginity emphasized before marriage is strong.
