EXPERIENCE REVIEWED

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30759, 25 May 1965, Page 17

EXPERIENCE REVIEWED

<N.Z. Pre** Assn. —Copyright! LONDON, May 24. A report on the sexual behaviour of Britain’s teen-agers shows they are not as sexually experienced as most people thought, the Associated Press reports. The Government-backed survey, conducted by the Central Council for Health

Education, interviewed 1873 young people aged 15 to 19 by a system of random sampling in various parts of the country. It took three years to complete. An article on the report published in the “Sunday Times” said: “It is a very big mistake to assume that most teen-agers are sexually experienced. “Notwithstanding all the influence to which the young people of today are exposed—greater independence, the weakening of family bonds and religious influences—the results of this research show

that premarital sexual relations are a long way from being universal among teenagers, for well over threequarters of the boys and girls in our sample have never engaged in them.” The report said it found .“more than one in five (21 per cent) of the teen-age boys and more than one in 10 (11 per cent) of the girls that we interviewed had experienced sexual intercourse.” The survey, entitled “The Sexual Behaviour of Young People” and written by Michael Schofield, will be published in July.