We adjudicate between two competing models of the long-term effects on women of sexual
contact in childhood. The psychogenic perspective conceptualizes adult-child sexual contact …

With 1.8 billion young people aged 10e24 years in the world today, the cohort of
adolescents and youth is the largest in history. Concurrently, millions of adolescents are …

PURPOSE: To examine sexual possibility situations (SPS) and protective practices
associated with involvement in intimate sexual behaviors and the initiation of sexual …

This study presented and tested a model of sexual satisfaction for late adolescent girls. In
this model, sexual self-concept and approach sexual motives were tested as predictors of …

The decade between 1998 and 2008 saw rapid increases in research on adolescent sexual
orientation development and related health issues, both in the quantity and in the quality of …

These findings highlight the multiple roles health care professionals can play in caring for
this unique population: firstly as health care providers, offering age appropriate, confidential …

CONTEXT: Despite the vast amount of existing research on adolescent sexual behavior,
little is known about the trajectory of social, romantic and sexual events within an …

Is it possible to conceptualize adolescent sexuality in positive terms? Social control
characterizes the cultural strategies for managing both adolescence and sexuality, yet social …

Positive aspects of sexuality remain understudied among young people globally, and
consensus is lacking on how to conceptualise different aspects of healthy adolescent …

Purpose We developed and validated a measure that assesses the latent construct of sexual
and reproductive empowerment among adolescents and young adults. A specific measure …