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Sexuality in the United States varies by region and time period.
The U.S. during the early modern period has a reputation for sexual impermissiveness, partly due to influence from the Puritans. During the Victorian era, romance was increasingly viewed as a key component of sexuality.[1] One study of the interwar period suggests that prudish attitudes were more pronounced among women than among men, with 47% in a poll describing premarital sex as wicked while only 28% of men said the same.[2] The 1960s are often viewed as the period wherein the U.S. underwent a substantial change in perception of sexual norms, with a substantial increase in extramarital sex.[3]
Some scholars argue that American media is the most sexually suggestive in the world.[9] According to this view, the sexual messages contained in film, television, and music are becoming more explicit in dialog, lyrics, and behavior. In addition, these messages may contain unrealistic, inaccurate, and misleading information. Some scholars argue that still developing teens may be particularly vulnerable to media effects.[10] A 2001 report found that teens rank the media second only to school sex education programs as a leading source of information about sex,[11] but a 2004 report found that "the media far outranked parents or schools as the source of information about birth control."[9]
Media often portray emotional side-effects of sexuality such as guilt, and disappointment, but less often physical risks such as pregnancy or STDs.[12] One media analysis found that sex was usually between unmarried couples and examples of using condoms or other contraception were "extremely rare."[13] Many of programs or films do not depict consequence for sexual behavior. For example, only 10% programs that contain sexual scenes include any warnings to the potential risks or responsibilities of having sex such as sexually transmitted diseases or pregnancy.[14] In television programing aimed at teens, more than 90% of episodes had at least one sexual reference in it with an average of 7.9 references per hour.[15]
However, government statistics suggest that since 1991, both teen sex and teen pregnancy have declined dramatically despite the media generally becoming increasingly sexually explicit.[16] Some analysts have said that this points to an inclination among latter millennials and Generation Z to have hyposexual and desexualized tendencies.[17]
Demographicsedit
According to a 2016 study, an estimated 4.1% of American adults identified themselves as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.[18] Roughly 99% of the adult U.S. population is allosexual (experiences sexual desires) while 1% is asexual (experiences no sexual desires).[19] One study has shown that there is no correlation between sexlessness and unhappiness, with sexually active and sexually inactive adult Americans showing roughly equal amounts of happiness.[20] Vicenarian women (aged between twenty and twenty-nine years) are about as likely to engage in infidelity as vicenarian men at 11% and 10% respectively.[21]
Lawedit
Sexual relations are mostly legal in the U.S. if there is no direct or unmediated exchange of money, if it is consensual, teleiophilic (between adults) and non-consanguineous i.e. between people who are not related familially or by kinship.[22] There are however exceptions, with for instance adult incestual relations being legal in states such as New Jersey and Rhode Island as of 2017.[23]Prostitution laws in the U.S. are by far the strictest in the developed world,[citation needed] but the state of Nevada licenses several of its counties to operate brothels and permits prostitutes/sex workers to sell sex, and clients to purchase sex.[24] There are also exceptions to age of consent laws, with some states permitting an ephebophilic relationship if the two persons are close in age[25] under what are known as Romeo-and-Juliet laws.
Modernedit
The 21st century saw increasingly permissive attitudes towards homosexuality,[26] however many laws continued to be heteronormative.[27] One survey has found that Millennials, on average, have sex less frequently than previous generations.[28] This has led to some analysts ruminating on a moral panic wherein young adults of the 2010s decade are uninterested in sex.[29] According to OKCupid, Portland, Oregon is the most promiscuous city in the United States.[30] Some studies have shown that Americans in general have more prudistic and coitophobic attitudes to sex than Europeans.[31]
Referencesedit
^"The Puritans really loved having sex". 21 October 2016.
^Bowman, Karlyn (2018). "Is Premarital Sex Wicked? Changing Attitudes About Morality". www.forbes.com.
^Spielvogel, Jackson (2016). Western Civilization: Volume II: Since 1500. p. 897.
^Rosenberg, Eli (June 24, 2016). "Stonewall Inn Named National Monument, a First for the Gay Rights Movement". The New York Times. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
^"Workforce Diversity The Stonewall Inn, National Historic Landmark National Register Number: 99000562". National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
^Hayasaki, Erika (May 18, 2007). "A new generation in the West Village". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
^Henry, C. J. (2013). "Preface". Advances in Food and Nutrition Research. 69: xi. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-410540-9.09988-9. ISBN9780124105409. ISSN 1043-4526. PMID 23522798.
^Walker, Harron (August 16, 2019). "Here's Every State That Requires Schools to Teach LGBTQ+ History". Out Magazine. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
^Gruber, Enid; Grube, Joel (March 2000). "Adolescent Sexuality and the Media". Western Journal of Medicine. 3. 172 (3): 210–214. doi:10.1136/ewjm.172.3.210. PMC1070813. PMID 10734819.
^American Academy Of Pediatrics. Committee On Public Education, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (January 2001). "Sexuality, Contraception, and the Media". Pediatrics. 107 (1): 191–1994
^Roberts; Henriksen & Foehr (2009). "Adolescence, adolescents, and media". Handbook of Adolescent Sexuality. 2 (3rd ed.): 314–344. doi:10.1002/9780470479193.adlpsy002010. ISBN9780470479193.
^Jones, Sam (22 March 2006). "Media 'influence' adolescent sex". the Guardian. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
^"Teen Health and the Media". depts.washington.edu. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
^Jennifer Stevens Aubrey (2004). "Sex and Punishment: An Examination of Sexual Consequences and the Sexual Double Standard in Teen Programming 2019-04-12 at the Wayback Machine". Sex Roles. 50 (7–8): 505–514
^. childstats.gov. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
^Twenge, Jean M., Ryne A. Sherman, and Brooke E. Wells. "Declines in sexual frequency among American adults, 1989–2014 2020-05-11 at the Wayback Machine." Archives of sexual behavior 46.8 (2017): 2389-2401.
^In US, More Adults Identifying as LGBT. Gallup (Report). 11 January 2017.
^Yule, Morag A., Lori A. Brotto, and Boris B. Gorzalka. "Sexual fantasy and masturbation among asexual individuals: An in-depth exploration[dead link]." Archives of sexual behavior 46.1 (2017): 311-328.
^Kim, Jean H; Tam, Wilson S; Muennig, Peter (2017). "Sociodemographic Correlates of Sexlessness Among American Adults and Associations with Self-Reported Happiness Levels: Evidence from the U.S. General Social Survey". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 46 (8): 2403–2415. doi:10.1007/s10508-017-0968-7. PMC5889124. PMID 28275930.
^Lusinski, Natalia (16 January 2018). "Young Women Are Cheating More Than Young Men Today & Here's The Reason Why". bustle.com. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
^Pullman, Lesleigh E., et al. "Differences between biological and sociolegal incest offenders: A meta-analysis." Aggression and violent behavior 34 (2017): 228-237.
^Yates, Peter (2017). "Sibling sexual abuse: Why don't we talk about it?". Journal of Clinical Nursing. 26 (15–16): 2482–2494. doi:10.1111/jocn.13531. PMID 27550889. S2CID 3102235.
^Benoit, Cecilia, et al. "Prostitution Stigma and Its Effect on the Working Conditions, Personal Lives, and Health of Sex Workers." The Journal of Sex Research (2017): 1-15.
^Parra, Diana Carave. Prosecutorial Discretion and Punishment Motives in Ambiguous Juvenile Sex Offense Cases. Diss. Arizona State University, 2017.
^Powell, David (2009). 21st-Century Gay Culture. p. 54.
^Paredes, Audrey Darlene. "US Central Americans: reconstructing memories, struggles, and communities of resistance." InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies 14.1 (2018).
^Bahrampour, Tara (March 14, 2017). . The Washington Post. Archived from the original on April 13, 2017. Retrieved August 31, 2022 – via The Virginian-Pilot.
^Twenge, Jean M; Sherman, Ryne A; Wells, Brooke E (2016). "Sexual Inactivity During Young Adulthood is More Common Among U.S. Millennials and iGen: Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Having No Sexual Partners After Age 18". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 46 (2): 433–440. doi:10.1007/s10508-016-0798-z. PMID 27480753. S2CID 207092404.
^"Top 10 most promiscuous cities in the U.S." CBS News. 6 December 2011.
^Hatfield, Elaine, and Richard L. Rapson. "Historical and cross-cultural perspectives on passionate love and sexual desire." Annual Review of Sex Research 4.1 (1993):"Do American states with more religious or conservative populations search more for sexual content on Google?." Archives of Sexual Behavior 44.1 (2015): 137-147
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This article s lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article January 2022 Sexuality in the United States varies by region and time period Contents 1 History 1 1 LGBT history 2 Media 3 Demographics 4 Law 5 Modern 6 ReferencesHistory editThe U S during the early modern period has a reputation for sexual impermissiveness partly due to influence from the Puritans During the Victorian era romance was increasingly viewed as a key component of sexuality 1 One study of the interwar period suggests that prudish attitudes were more pronounced among women than among men with 47 in a poll describing premarital sex as wicked while only 28 of men said the same 2 The 1960s are often viewed as the period wherein the U S underwent a substantial change in perception of sexual norms with a substantial increase in extramarital sex 3 LGBT history edit This section is an excerpt from LGBT history in the United States edit nbsp The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village Manhattan site of the June 28 1969 Stonewall riots the cradle of the modern LGBT rights movement is adorned with rainbow pride flags in 2016 4 5 6 LGBT history in the United States spans the contributions and struggles of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender LGBT people as well as the LGBT social movements they have built 7 8 Media editSome scholars argue that American media is the most sexually suggestive in the world 9 According to this view the sexual messages contained in film television and music are becoming more explicit in dialog lyrics and behavior In addition these messages may contain unrealistic inaccurate and misleading information Some scholars argue that still developing teens may be particularly vulnerable to media effects 10 A 2001 report found that teens rank the media second only to school sex education programs as a leading source of information about sex 11 but a 2004 report found that the media far outranked parents or schools as the source of information about birth control 9 Media often portray emotional side effects of sexuality such as guilt and disappointment but less often physical risks such as pregnancy or STDs 12 One media analysis found that sex was usually between unmarried couples and examples of using condoms or other contraception were extremely rare 13 Many of programs or films do not depict consequence for sexual behavior For example only 10 programs that contain sexual scenes include any warnings to the potential risks or responsibilities of having sex such as sexually transmitted diseases or pregnancy 14 In television programing aimed at teens more than 90 of episodes had at least one sexual reference in it with an average of 7 9 references per hour 15 However government statistics suggest that since 1991 both teen sex and teen pregnancy have declined dramatically despite the media generally becoming increasingly sexually explicit 16 Some analysts have said that this points to an inclination among latter millennials and Generation Z to have hyposexual and desexualized tendencies 17 Demographics editAccording to a 2016 study an estimated 4 1 of American adults identified themselves as being lesbian gay bisexual or transgender 18 Roughly 99 of the adult U S population is allosexual experiences sexual desires while 1 is asexual experiences no sexual desires 19 One study has shown that there is no correlation between sexlessness and unhappiness with sexually active and sexually inactive adult Americans showing roughly equal amounts of happiness 20 Vicenarian women aged between twenty and twenty nine years are about as likely to engage in infidelity as vicenarian men at 11 and 10 respectively 21 Law editSexual relations are mostly legal in the U S if there is no direct or unmediated exchange of money if it is consensual teleiophilic between adults and non consanguineous i e between people who are not related familially or by kinship 22 There are however exceptions with for instance adult incestual relations being legal in states such as New Jersey and Rhode Island as of 2017 23 Prostitution laws in the U S are by far the strictest in the developed world citation needed but the state of Nevada licenses several of its counties to operate brothels and permits prostitutes sex workers to sell sex and clients to purchase sex 24 There are also exceptions to age of consent laws with some states permitting an ephebophilic relationship if the two persons are close in age 25 under what are known as Romeo and Juliet laws Modern editThe 21st century saw increasingly permissive attitudes towards homosexuality 26 however many laws continued to be heteronormative 27 One survey has found that Millennials on average have sex less frequently than previous generations 28 This has led to some analysts ruminating on a moral panic wherein young adults of the 2010s decade are uninterested in sex 29 According to OKCupid Portland Oregon is the most promiscuous city in the United States 30 Some studies have shown that Americans in general have more prudistic and coitophobic attitudes to sex than Europeans 31 References edit The Puritans really loved having sex 21 October 2016 Bowman Karlyn 2018 Is Premarital Sex Wicked Changing Attitudes About Morality www forbes com Spielvogel Jackson 2016 Western Civilization Volume II Since 1500 p 897 Rosenberg Eli June 24 2016 Stonewall Inn Named National Monument a First for the Gay Rights Movement The New York Times Retrieved July 3 2017 Workforce Diversity The Stonewall Inn National Historic Landmark National Register Number 99000562 National Park Service U S Department of the Interior Retrieved July 3 2017 Hayasaki Erika May 18 2007 A new generation in the West Village Los Angeles Times Retrieved July 3 2017 Henry C J 2013 Preface Advances in Food and Nutrition Research 69 xi doi 10 1016 B978 0 12 410540 9 09988 9 ISBN 9780124105409 ISSN 1043 4526 PMID 23522798 Walker Harron August 16 2019 Here s Every State That Requires Schools to Teach LGBTQ History Out Magazine Retrieved 14 December 2020 a b Victor C Strasburger MD 2005 Adolescents Sex and the Media Ooooo Baby Baby a Q amp A Archived 2019 03 30 at the Wayback Machine Adolesc Med 16 2 269 288 Gruber Enid Grube Joel March 2000 Adolescent Sexuality and the Media Western Journal of Medicine 3 172 3 210 214 doi 10 1136 ewjm 172 3 210 PMC 1070813 PMID 10734819 American Academy Of Pediatrics Committee On Public Education American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry January 2001 Sexuality Contraception and the Media Pediatrics 107 1 191 1994 Roberts Henriksen amp Foehr 2009 Adolescence adolescents and media Handbook of Adolescent Sexuality 2 3rd ed 314 344 doi 10 1002 9780470479193 adlpsy002010 ISBN 9780470479193 Jones Sam 22 March 2006 Media influence adolescent sex the Guardian Retrieved 9 April 2018 Teen Health and the Media depts washington edu Retrieved 9 April 2018 Jennifer Stevens Aubrey 2004 Sex and Punishment An Examination of Sexual Consequences and the Sexual Double Standard in Teen Programming Archived 2019 04 12 at the Wayback Machine Sex Roles 50 7 8 505 514 Childstats gov America s Children Key National Indicators of Well Being 2017 Sexual Activity childstats gov Archived from the original on 17 March 2012 Retrieved 9 April 2018 Twenge Jean M Ryne A Sherman and Brooke E Wells Declines in sexual frequency among American adults 1989 2014 Archived 2020 05 11 at the Wayback Machine Archives of sexual behavior 46 8 2017 2389 2401 In US More Adults Identifying as LGBT Gallup Report 11 January 2017 Yule Morag A Lori A Brotto and Boris B Gorzalka Sexual fantasy and masturbation among asexual individuals An in depth exploration dead link Archives of sexual behavior 46 1 2017 311 328 Kim Jean H Tam Wilson S Muennig Peter 2017 Sociodemographic Correlates of Sexlessness Among American Adults and Associations with Self Reported Happiness Levels Evidence from the U S General Social Survey Archives of Sexual Behavior 46 8 2403 2415 doi 10 1007 s10508 017 0968 7 PMC 5889124 PMID 28275930 Lusinski Natalia 16 January 2018 Young Women Are Cheating More Than Young Men Today amp Here s The Reason Why bustle com Retrieved 9 April 2018 Pullman Lesleigh E et al Differences between biological and sociolegal incest offenders A meta analysis Aggression and violent behavior 34 2017 228 237 Yates Peter 2017 Sibling sexual abuse Why don t we talk about it Journal of Clinical Nursing 26 15 16 2482 2494 doi 10 1111 jocn 13531 PMID 27550889 S2CID 3102235 Benoit Cecilia et al Prostitution Stigma and Its Effect on the Working Conditions Personal Lives and Health of Sex Workers The Journal of Sex Research 2017 1 15 Parra Diana Carave Prosecutorial Discretion and Punishment Motives in Ambiguous Juvenile Sex Offense Cases Diss Arizona State University 2017 Powell David 2009 21st Century Gay Culture p 54 Paredes Audrey Darlene US Central Americans reconstructing memories struggles and communities of resistance InterActions UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies 14 1 2018 Bahrampour Tara March 14 2017 Americans are having less sex than they once did The Washington Post Archived from the original on April 13 2017 Retrieved August 31 2022 via The Virginian Pilot Twenge Jean M Sherman Ryne A Wells Brooke E 2016 Sexual Inactivity During Young Adulthood is More Common Among U S Millennials and iGen Age Period and Cohort Effects on Having No Sexual Partners After Age 18 Archives of Sexual Behavior 46 2 433 440 doi 10 1007 s10508 016 0798 z PMID 27480753 S2CID 207092404 Top 10 most promiscuous cities in the U S CBS News 6 December 2011 Hatfield Elaine and Richard L Rapson Historical and cross cultural perspectives on passionate love and sexual desire Annual Review of Sex Research 4 1 1993 Do American states with more religious or conservative populations search more for sexual content on Google Archives of Sexual Behavior 44 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