CONTRACEPTIVE EXPERIENCE

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In spite of the high percentage of sexually active teenagers there was little evidence of promiscuity. Few of the teenagers were sexual adventurers. Christine Farrell comments, ‘The majority of young people currently involved in a sexual relationship were having sex with someone they had been going out with for more than six months, and there was no evidence that the pill was encouraging casual relationships.’ Most of the sexually active teenagers used some form of contraception, and only one in twelve did not. The form of birth control most commonly used was the condom, followed by withdrawal, and, increasingly, the pill.

In the U.S.A. Zelnik and Kantner’s 1976 survey followed the same pattern as their earlier study. They concentrated their efforts on seeing if changes had occurred in the sexual behaviour and contraceptive experience of teenage women. Their findings confirmed an increase in sexual activity by teenage unmarried women. They found that by the age of 19, 55 per cent of unmarried teenage women had had sexual intercourse compared with 47 per cent in the survey of 1971, an increase of 18 per cent. As well as this, they found that teenage women were having sex earlier, and there was a 30 per cent increase in the number of women aged 15 to 19

who had sexual intercourse. There had been a tendency, in the five-year interval, for a woman to have more sexual partners, although 51 per cent of the women had sexual intercourse with only one partner by the age of 19. Thirty per cent of women had had sex with two or three men, and 23 per cent were sexual adventurers, compared with 16 per cent in 1971.

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