The majority of teens are having sex, however, we know little about sex that occurs outside
the traditional dating context and the factors associated with these non-romantic sexual …

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 …

Purpose: This paper reports on data from a 1990 US national survey of the sexual behavior
of male and female adolescents aged 12–17. Methods: A household survey using a multi …

Youth sexuality has been primarily studied with a focus on its potential public health issues,
such as sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies, and its comorbidity with …

In this article, I propose a sex-positive framework for research on adolescent sexuality in
which I consider consensual sexual activities in adolescence as developmentally normative …

Context: Adolescent sexual behavior is typically studied as a dichotomy: Adolescents have
had sex or they have not. Broadening this view would lead to a greater understanding of …

PURPOSE: Little is known about how adolescent sexual behaviors develop and the
influence of personal or perceived social attitudes. We sought to describe how personal …

This article critically reviews the literature about adolescent males' sexuality in order to
describe the state of the science and to identify promising concepts and research designs …

Although research has increasingly emphasized how adolescent sexual behavior may be
associated with aspects of health beyond unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted …

More than one half of sexually active teens have had sexual partners they are not dating.
However, remarkably little is known about the nature of these sexual relationships. Using …