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Article: Perceptions of peer sexual activities in Korean adolescents.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
- Author:
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Traditionally, until the 1960s, Korean people married during their teens or early twenties, unless men were serving required military duty. Also, men typically postponed marriage until they were in their mid 20s. Until the early 1960s, very few Korean brides and bridegrooms had ever met each other before their wedding day because their parents wholly controlled the mate selection process (Kim, 1999; Youn, 1998).
Since the 1960s, most Korean adolescents have been in conflict with the standards of behavior that have been established by the adults. According to those standards, adolescents' smoking or drinking behaviors, having coitus, or even meeting members of the ...