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Article: Casual sex among Australian schoolies.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
- Author:
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Each year thousands of Australian youth, newly graduated or in their last years of high school, descend on the Australian Gold Coast during late November and early December. These "schoolies," as they are commonly called, are participating in an annual beach-side phenomenon similar to the North American "spring break" holiday that has recently received considerable research attention (e.g., Josiam, Hobson, Dietrich, & Smeaton, 1998; Maticka-Tyndale, Herold, & Mewhinney, 1998; Mattila, Apostolopoulos, Sonmez, Yu, & Sasidharan, 2001). Both schoolies week and spring break are holidays when youth travel with friends and gather in large numbers, typically at beach resorts, ...