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- Title
Is Promiscuity Less Condoned?
- Authors
Robinson, I.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the views of students at a southern university on premarital sex and promiscuity. Over the past 25 years, the percentage of students at a southern university who believe that premarital intercourse is immoral has steadily dwindled, but the proportion who say that having a great many partners is immoral has risen in recent years. In 1965, 70 percent of young women and 33 percent of young men surveyed in classes at the university agreed with the statement that premarital sexual intercourse is immoral; by 1985, only 17 percent of young women and 16 percent of young men agreed. The investigators comment that with regard to having many partners, there is a very clear return to the condemnatory attitude of the mid-1960s at the university, although attitudes toward premarital intercourse with one partner have become steadily more accepting.
- Subjects
PREMARITAL sex; PROMISCUITY; SEXUAL intercourse; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; COLLEGE students; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1991, Vol 23, Issue 4, p148
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article