Sexual Beginners: Accounting for First Sexual Intercourse in Italian Young People's Heterosexual Biographies

Autor/in	Ferrero Camoletto, Raffaella
Titel	Sexual Beginners: Accounting for First Sexual Intercourse in Italian Young People's Heterosexual Biographies
Quelle	In: Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 11 (2011) 3, S.315-325 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1811
Schlagwörter	Scripts; Interviews; Biographies; Sexuality; Youth; Foreign Countries; Surveys; Young Adults; Late Adolescents; Personal Narratives; Gender Issues; Social Influences; Gender Differences; Cultural Influences; Masculinity; Femininity; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Skript; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Sexualität; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Ausland; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Halbstarker; Erlebniserzählung; Geschlechterfrage; Sozialer Einfluss; Geschlechterkonflikt; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Männlichkeit; Femaleness; Weiblichkeit; Italien
Abstract	Based on survey data of 1000 young people aged 18-29 and semi-structured interviews with 51 young people aged 18-34 living in a north-western Italian region, the article explores how they account for their first heterosexual intercourse. Young people describe and make sense of their experiences by referring to sexual scripts; narrative sequences that represent the legitimate rules and moves of the heterosexual game. The article shows the complex intertwining of compliance with, adaptation and negotiation of, and challenge to gendered sexual scripts. On the one hand, at the beginning of their sexual careers young people follow gendered scripts strongly shaped by a double standard: young men more often place their first sexual intercourse within a context of emotional and relational detachment, while young women tend to interpret their sexual debut as a romantic experience. On the other hand, the research findings point to processes of negotiation and re-definition of scripts based on three different cultural logics: the denaturalization of sexual scripts; the reversal or inversion of gendered scripts; and the convergence with or the construction of a common "degendering" script. (Contains 2 figures and 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10