Premarital sex in America
Subtitle: how young Americans meet, mate, and think about marrying
By: Mark Regnerus and Jeremy Uecker
Contributors: Uecker, Jeremy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780199743285
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The partnerships and practices of emerging adults; title: Inside sexual relationships; title: The college campus : sex 101; title: No strings attached: sex and emotional health; title: Marriage in the minds of emerging adults; title: Red sex, blue sex: relationship norms in a divided America; title: The power of stories and ten myths about sex in emerging adulthood.