Citation
Halpern, Carolyn Tucker (2010). Reframing Research on Adolescent Sexuality: Healthy Sexual Development as Part of the Life Course.
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 42(1), 6-7.
Abstract
Investigations have traditionally framed adolescent sexual activity as “problem behavior”: socially disapproved behavior that carries acknowledged risks, such as STDs and unintended pregnancy, and may be accompanied by other disapproved behaviors, including substance use and delinquency.1 This approach has yielded a long list of risk and protective factors in relation to undesired outcomes, but the conceptualization of adolescent sexuality as a problem behavior has also served an important political role. Justifying public investment in the investigation of a sensitive topic like adolescent sexuality is easier when the significance is premised on preventing unintended pregnancy and STDs, as opposed to, for example, the identification of the types of adolescent sexual experiences that enable future sexual health.
URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1363/4200610Reference Type
Journal Article
Year Published
2010
Journal Title
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Author(s)
Halpern, Carolyn Tucker
ORCiD
Halpern - 0000-0003-4278-5646
