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Post by bill on Mar 14, 2015 21:14:58 GMT
Again I woonder if everyone in the fifties considered sex outside marriage forbidden. Maybe nice middle class boys . I do not doubt that it was not as prevalent as it is now but still I wonder how many people were virgins on their wedding night We were. 1966.
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Post by Moose on Mar 14, 2015 21:48:39 GMT
Was that for religious reasons or cultural though?
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Post by raspberrybullets on Mar 15, 2015 11:10:05 GMT
I'm sure plenty of "nice, middle class boys" were having sex. Maybe not with the nice, middle class girls they intended to marry, but with poorer girls, servents and probably plenty of rape around. Considering how much rape there is now, when women have more sexual freedom, I can only imagine rape was even worse in the 50s.
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Post by bill on Mar 15, 2015 14:47:58 GMT
Was that for religious reasons or cultural though? Both probably. My parents would have been shocked if they had thought we were having sex before marriage and, believe me, in those days that was an incentive. Quite unlike today when sex is often considered no more signicant than going to the lavatory.
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Post by tangent on Mar 15, 2015 21:45:06 GMT
I'm sure plenty of "nice, middle class boys" were having sex. I can assure you, we were not. For two reasons, we were brought up in a culture that forbad it, and secondly, there was a dire shortage of girls who would not even let you get close enough to kiss them.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Mar 17, 2015 10:00:00 GMT
I somehow don't think times have changed all that dramatically over the last few decades that no boys were having sex. I suspect that you were just unaware of it.
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Post by bill on Mar 17, 2015 22:22:45 GMT
Of course many were but it was not as common. Don't forget that condoms were not as easily available. You could get them from the chemist but you had to ask which was I am sure embarrassing although it did not affect me. Also doctors would not normally put young ladies on the pill even after it was invented unless they were married or about to get married. Babies born out of wedlock were a stigma. Now, in the main nobody turns a hair. No, things have changed a lot.
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Post by tangent on Mar 18, 2015 2:09:35 GMT
You can find a more objective answer, here. Boys in 1980 lost their virginity more or less at the same age as boys in 1950 but thereafter the age plummets.
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Post by Miisa on Mar 18, 2015 9:25:29 GMT
Not sure I would believe that all too much. If you look at the boys born between 1990 and 1996 it drops to an astounding average of 11! How many boys are even approaching puberty at that age?
1980 18.9 131 1981 19.2 108 1982 18.4 157 1983 17.8 134 1984 17.9 143 1985 17.4 130 1986 17.3 170 1987 17.2 126 1988 16.6 138 1989 16.2 163 1990 15.6 129 1991 14.9 112 1992 14.1 87 1993 13.2 52 1994 11.6 21 1995 11.5 4 1996 11.0 2
That was posted 4 years ago, so those who would have answered those very low numbers would have been at most in their teens at the time, and I very much suspect that at that age not only is there a LOT of exaggeration and bragging, plus the only ones to even answer that (only two in the last row answered, 15-year olds or younger) would be the ones who could give a early early age to impress. Give them a few years to mature and you might get more honest answers.
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Post by tangent on Mar 18, 2015 10:31:49 GMT
Ah well, I tried to answer objectively.
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Post by Miisa on Mar 18, 2015 20:27:56 GMT
The fpa.org.uk site suggest that between 1990 and 1999 "The average age at first intercourse has fallen from 17 to 16 for both men and women." It does also say that the number of partners has gone up quite a bit.
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Post by Moose on Mar 18, 2015 21:47:59 GMT
What is the average number of partners out of interest?
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Post by Miisa on Mar 19, 2015 9:04:27 GMT
From the page I linked to:
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