All You Need is Love?: The morality of sexual relationships through the eyes of young people

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Jan 1, 2005 - Education - 93 pages

Providing a unique insight into young people's sexual values for adults working with them, this book relays the voices of young people and their views about the morality of sexual relationships.

In All You Need is Love young people consider the factors that make sex legitimate in their opinion, and their feelings about under-age sex, the age of consent, sexual pressures, teenage pregnancy, abortion, teenage magazines, pornography, homosexuality and raising a child.

 

Contents

1 Introduction
1
2 Patterns in sexual values
7
3 Making sex legitimate
13
4 Debating sexual values
43
5 Engaging with young peoples sexual values
83
References
87
Index
89
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About the author (2005)

Sue Sharpe is a Consultant Researcher at Timescapes School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds. She has published several books on her research interests, which include the lives and experiences of young people, gender issues and family relationships.