Premarital sexual experience: A longitudinal study

The premarital sexual experience of 161 couples still married to each other after twenty years is reported and answers are sought to the following questions: What is the effect of premarital sexual experience on subsequent marriage? Does the degree of premarital intimacy make any difference in the s...

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Published in:The Journal of sex research 1974-02, Vol.10 (1), p.32-39
Main Author: Ard, Ben N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affection
Human sexual behavior
Husbands
Intimacy
Longitudinal studies
Men
Physical intimacy
Premarital
Premarital sex
Sex/Sexes/Sexism/Sexist/Sexists
Spouses
Wives
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Summary:The premarital sexual experience of 161 couples still married to each other after twenty years is reported and answers are sought to the following questions: What is the effect of premarital sexual experience on subsequent marriage? Does the degree of premarital intimacy make any difference in the subsequent marriage? How do couples with premarital sexual experience evaluate it after twenty years of marriage? The findings show no evidence to support the hypothesis that increasing degrees of premarital intimacy will have increasingly detrimental effects upon later marriage.
ISSN:0022-4499
1559-8519
DOI:10.1080/00224497409550823