1. VALUE-BEHAVIOR DISCREPANCIES REGARDING PRE- MARITAL COITUS IN THREE WESTERN CULTURES.
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SEXUAL intercourse ,COLLEGE students ,SEXUAL permissiveness ,QUESTIONNAIRES - Abstract
University student responses to questionnaires indicated both higher scores on sexual permissiveness and higher rates of premarital coitus in Denmark as compared with two samples from the United States (though intercultural differences in male coital rates could be explained, at least partially, by differences in age distribution among the samples). Of these latter, Midwestern students showed higher permissiveness scores and higher coital rates than did students in the more restrictive Mormon culture of the Intermountain West. In all three samples, males showed higher permissiveness scores and coital rates than females, though these sex differences were relatively small in the permissive culture (Denmark). In the Danish culture approval of premarital coitus ran ahead of actual practice, whereas in the American cultures the reverse was true-with accompanying feelings of guilt. Certain negative effects from premarital coitus showed up highest in the restrictive American cultures (Midwestern and especially Intermountain), suggesting that the difficulty may be partially the result of value-behavior discrepancies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1962
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