GALLUP POLL 2
What was disturbing were the findings that over 57 per cent of the young people who were sexually active had a sex problem of one sort or another.
The main problem was anxiety about sexual performance. This concerned 21 per cent of the men and 13 per cent of the women. Fewer married people (16 per cent) expressed this anxiety, compared with those ‘going steady’ (23 per cent) and those who were single (21 per cent). The second main problem was boredom in sex, which affected 7 per cent of the men and 16 per cent of the women. More married than unmarried couples complained of this problem. The third problem, that of guilt feelings, or of moral concern about sex, was complained of by 18 per cent (21 per cent of the men and 15 per cent of the women). The unmarried, sexually active young people were more likely to be concerned about this problem. The fourth problem was anxiety about masturbation, which concerned 12 per cent of the men and 2 per cent of the women.
This has been answered, at least partially, by Michael Schofield’s 1973 investigation, by a survey, also in Britain, by Christine Farrell in late 1974, and by a survey in the U.S.A. in 1976 by Melvin Zelnik and John Kantner.
Michael Schofield’s second survey demonstrated that changes in sexual attitudes and behaviour had occurred between 1966 and J973- These changes were more in attitudes than in behaviour. In 1966 the teenagers had rather more sex than they admitted having. In 1973, although some increase in sexual activity had occurred, the men and women, now aged 25, had rather less sexual activity than they said they had.
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