Biosocial foundations for adolescent female sexuality
Abstract
Despite the widespread assumption that hormones stimulate motivation for sexual behavior in adolescence, no published empirical studies have demonstrated this link. In a cross-sectional study of 78 females in the eighth, ninth, and tenth grades in public schools, we show that hormones have effects on sexual motivation and behavior. Comparison with previous results from a parallel sample of males indicates that for both sexes these effects are primarily androgenic in origin and for the most part exert their effects directly rather than through the social interpretation of age and hormone-induced pubertal development.
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In a cross-sectional study of eighth to tenth grade girls, there was a relation between testosterone levels and measures of sexual interest and masturbation, but not with the likelihood of having experienced sexual intercourse.
“As with their studies on adolescent boys, they found discrepant results between their cross-sectional study of eighth to tenth grade girls (approximately 13-15 years of age), where they found a relation between testosterone levels and measures of sexual interest and masturbation, but not with the likelihood of having experienced sexual intercourse”
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- Authors
- Udry, J. R., Talbert, L. M., & Morris, N. M.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- University of Illinois Chicago (US)
- Venue
- Demography
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- 1986-05-01
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 217-230
- ISSN
- 0070-3370 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-7790
- OpenAlex
- W2068376909
- Cited by
- 184
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 25.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Demography (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD 12806)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Reproductive Medicine › Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Sexual Differentiation and Disorders
- Keywords
- sexual motivation, sex hormones, androgens, puberty, pubertal development, sexual behavior, gender differences
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Female, Humans, Male, Models, Theoretical, Puberty, Sexual Behavior, Gonadal Steroid Hormones, Social Behavior
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