Premarital sex in America : how young Americans meet, mate, and think about marrying / Mark Regnerus, Jeremy Uecker.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.Description: viii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199743285
  • 0199743282
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.73/308420973 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ27 .R44 2011
Contents:
Introduction -- The partnerships and practices of emerging adults -- Inside sexual relationships -- The college campus : sex 101 -- No strings attached: sex and emotional health -- Marriage in the minds of emerging adults -- Red sex, blue sex: relationship norms in a divided America -- The power of stories and ten myths about sex in emerging adulthood.
Summary: This book combines illuminating personal stories and comprehensive survey data to provide the fullest portrait of heterosexuality among young adults ever produced. Digging underneath stereotypes and unexamined assumptions, the authors, Mark Regnerus and Jeremy Uecker offer compelling answers to many questions. To better understand what motivates young adult's sexual decisions, the authors pay special attention to two important concepts: sexual scripts, the unwritten and often unconscious rules that guide sexual behavior and attitudes; and sexual economics, which suggests that both sexual norms and real behavior are affected by market forces that shape the 'price' of sex both within and outside of traditional relationships. This book serves as a touchstone for anyone wishing to understand how sexual relationships between young adults have changed and are continuing to change. -- Book Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index.

Introduction -- The partnerships and practices of emerging adults -- Inside sexual relationships -- The college campus : sex 101 -- No strings attached: sex and emotional health -- Marriage in the minds of emerging adults -- Red sex, blue sex: relationship norms in a divided America -- The power of stories and ten myths about sex in emerging adulthood.

This book combines illuminating personal stories and comprehensive survey data to provide the fullest portrait of heterosexuality among young adults ever produced. Digging underneath stereotypes and unexamined assumptions, the authors, Mark Regnerus and Jeremy Uecker offer compelling answers to many questions. To better understand what motivates young adult's sexual decisions, the authors pay special attention to two important concepts: sexual scripts, the unwritten and often unconscious rules that guide sexual behavior and attitudes; and sexual economics, which suggests that both sexual norms and real behavior are affected by market forces that shape the 'price' of sex both within and outside of traditional relationships. This book serves as a touchstone for anyone wishing to understand how sexual relationships between young adults have changed and are continuing to change. -- Book Jacket.

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