PSY 3620 Study Guide - Final Guide: Retrovirus, American Psychiatric Association, Mental Disorder
2 Nov 2016
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Sexual ethics in the united states have changed greatly since the late 1960s and early. 1970s, the time of the so-called sexual revolution. Research documents the increasing sexual permissiveness of youths, especially of girls, and the fact that society now is pluralistic as far as sexual morality is concerned. People now tolerate and accept not one standard of sexual behavior but many. Along with increased sexual activity have come increases in sexually transmitted diseases, abortions, and unwed pregnancies. Youths have the same sexual drives and urges today that other generations have had, but the difference is that these urges are being constantly stimulated and the guidelines for their control or expression are less clearly defined. Premarital sexual behavior (cdc; 2008), reports that only about 7 percent of teenagers have experienced sexual intercourse by age 13. About 30 percent of 15- to 17-year-olds report that they have engaged in intercourse, and.
