Go Back Research Article January, 2014

Sexual Learning, Sexual Experience, and Healthy Adolescent Sex: Sexual Learning, Sexual Experience, and Healthy Adolescent Sex

Author James Dennis Fortenberry

Abstract

This chapter is organized around the question “How do adolescents learn to have healthy sex?” The chapter assumes that sexual learning derives from a broad range of both informal and formal sources that contribute to learning within the context of neurocognitive brain systems that modulate sexual motivations and self-regulation. The overall objective is to consider how adolescents become sexually functional and healthy and to provide a conceptual basis for expansion of sexual learning to better support healthy sexual functioning. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Keywords

sexual learning healthy adolescent sex sexual experience adolescent sexuality sexual health neurocognitive brain systems sexual motivation self-regulation sexual functioning adolescent sexual development formal sexual education informal sexual learning healthy sexual behavior adolescent health sexual education expansion healthy sexual practices sexual development sexual self-regulation
Details
Volume 2014
Issue 144
Pages 71–86
DOI 10.1002/cad.20061
ISSN 1534-8687
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