nationally representative study of 15–19 year old men, sexual experience was common (43% report ever having sex), but sexual activity in the last month was less so (14%) contraceptive use was also relatively common (87% reported some type of contraception at first sex, primarily condoms or a combination of another method and condoms) ( Abma, Martinez and Copen 2010). 1996 Sieving, McNeely and Blum 2000 Eyre, Davis and Peacock 2001 Hawes, Wellings and Stephenson 2010). Studies have examined individual factors such as ethnicity, school record, career ambition and substance abuse, family factors such as parental living arrangement, maternal education, parental communication and parental involvement and peer factors such as peer pressure and relationship status ( Mott et al. While detailed descriptions of young women’s first sexual experiences are available (see, for example, Thompson (1990) or Tolman and colleagues (2003)) much less is known about adolescent boys.Įxisting data provide a demographic portrait of adolescent boys’ early sexual behaviours. These factors should be incorporated in harm-reduction interventions for young men in similar contexts.įirst sexual experiences are considered particularly salient by both adolescents and researchers ( Lewin 1982 Cooksey, Mott and Neubauer 2002 Rebello and Gomes 2009) ( Traeen and Kvalem 1996) ( Holland et al. Mentorship, initiation by the female, and idealising sex as a romantic experience, played important roles in constructing the context of first sex. The dominant narrative of first sex proceeded through three steps: (1) Preparation, which involved identification of a sexualised space, mentoring by an older man, and pre-planning (2) the event, which involved looking for cues indicating sexual interest and consent from a female partner, feelings of fear/nervousness, and first sex itself and (3) afterwards, which involved a return to prior activities, minimal verbal exchange and a general positive feeling, sometimes accompanied by later disappointment. Descriptions of first sex were identified, and then analysed for narrative structure and shared concepts. city were asked about relationships and sexual experiences in a one hour face-to-face semi-structured interview, with two follow-up interviews at 6–9 month intervals. Using qualitative methods, 14 adolescent men (ages 14–16, all low income, most African American) from a mid-sized U.S. Yet these data that are needed to inform STI and early fatherhood prevention efforts, particularly in lower income communities. Yet the film’s vital center has no connection with history or politics, and everything to do with anti-gay prejudice visited on the younger Mason son, Josh, by-astonishment of astonishments-his mother.There are limited contextual data regarding first sexual experiences of younger adolescent men. It’s equally an account of censorship efforts, during the Reagan administration, that threatened to put Barry in prison and relented only afterĬame to office. In its leisurely, episodic fashion, “Circus of Books” functions as a history of the LGBTQ movement, Western division, and of the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the store’s loyal staff. Until something better came along they decided to take over a foundering porn shop called Book Circus, modified the sign to read Circus of Books and, starting in 1982, built a business that established a second location in Los Angeles, expanded into adult-film production and became the country’s largest distributor of gay porn. But she burned out as a journalist and he wasn’t setting the world on fire as an inventor of medical devices that he developed caring for his father, a kidney patient with a dialysis machine at home.
Barry had studied film at UCLA, and Karen had been a newspaper reporter-she got her start, she says, with The Wall Street Journal in Chicago, then went to the Cincinnati Inquirer.
The Masons’ daughter, is a tale of professional drift and accidental entrepreneurship. No, but no one would ever have taken her to be a pornographer. “I would never call myself a soccer mom,” she says cheerfully.
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