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Article: Premarital sexuality: a five-year follow-up study of attitudes and behavior by dating stage.
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- Adolescence
- Article date:
- March 22, 1993
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The primary purpose of this study was to examine the state of premarital sexual attitudes and behavior among college students during the 1980s. Respondents surveyed in 1988 were compared to those studied in 1983. Data from both studies permit us to judge the direction in which the "sexual revolution" moved in the 1980s and to assess the degree to which concern about contracting AIDS affected premarital sexual attitudes and behavior.
Studies conducted in the late 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s indicated a growing permissiveness in premarital sexual attitudes and behavior (Bell & Chaskes, 1970; Ferrel et al., 1977; King et al., 1977; Mahoney, 1978; Glenn & Weaver, 1979; ...