Describe the changing patterns of sexual behaviour among Australian adolescents over the past two decades and comment on the social factors which might bear on stability or change in sexual activity in young people.

Running Head : Changes in Sexual Patterns

Changes in Sexual Patterns in Australian Adolescents

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The sexual patterns among the adolescents in Australia today have changed even if the factors that lead to sexual experimentation are still the same : peer pressure , curiosity and the need of love . The behavior patterns that accompany these factors nowadays start too early in life with students from 12 years knowing a lot about sexual intercourse with 80 having had either a kiss , penetration or both (Reichler Rosenthal

, 1996

Pregnancy and subsequent abortion has also been on the rise due to early sexual orientation and ineffective or uninformed use of contraceptives Few adolescents use condoms for prevention of HIV and other STI 's but for prevention against pregnancy (Reichler Rosenthal 1996 . This shall describe the changing sexual patterns among Australian adolescents and subsequent social factors that affect these exhibited patterns

Introduction

Over the past two decades , many Australian adolescents have transformed in their approach to sexual matters and thus change of sexual behavior (Reichler Rosenthal , 1996 . These changes have been informed by a variety of social factors in which the adolescents live in

Among the changes that have occurred in the sexual patterns in adolescents is the rapid and wide use of oral sex (Skinner Hickey 2003 . Fellatio and cunnilingus can be said to be part and parcel of sexual encounters between males and females of between 16 and 19 even though a great deal of them do not consider...