CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
1. The Scientific Study of Human Sexuality
The Neglect of Sex Research
The Importance of Sex Research
What We Know at Present
Brief Overview of This Study
2. The Premarital Sexual Permissiveness Scales
Premarital Sexual Standards
Premarital Sexual Permissiveness
Universal Permissive Scales
Summary and Conclusions
3. Racial and Sexual Differences
Introduction to the Analysis of Tables
Preface to Proposition One
Race and Permissiveness
Religious Attendance and Permissiveness
Romantic Love and Permissiveness
Frequency of Falling in Love and Permissiveness
Summary, Conclusions, and Proposition One
4. Social Class and Premarital Sexual Permissiveness:
A Reexamination and Reformulation
Preface to Proposition Two
Previous Work
A Test of the Relationship of Social Class to Permissiveness
Comparisons with Kinsey's Findings
Summary, Conclusions, and Proposition Two
City Size and Region of the Country
5. Dating Characteristics and
Premarital Sexual Permissiveness
Preface to Proposition Three
The Romantic-Love Scale
Age at Which Dating Began and Permissiveness
Exclusiveness of Dating and Permissiveness
Number of Steadies and Permissiveness
Number of Love Relationships and Permissiveness
Summary, Conclusions, and Proposition Three
6. Equalitarianism
Preface to Proposition Four
Student and Adult Equalitarianism
Equalitarianism and Permissiveness
Age and Equalitarianism
Religiosity and Equalitarianism
Romantic Love and Equalitarianism
Social Class and Equalitarianism
Dating Background and Equalitarianism
Summary, Conclusions, and Proposition Four
Support for Nonequalitarianism
7. Changes in Sexual Standards, Behavior,
and Guilt Feelings in Adolescence
Preface to Proposition Five
Changes in Sexual Standards
Guilt Feelings and Changing Standards
Which Comes First, Attitude or Behavior?
Summary, Conclusions, and Proposition Five
Relevant Data from Other Samples
8. Self-Permissiveness and Perceived Permissiveness of
Parents, Peers, and Close Friends
Preface to Proposition Six
Similarity to Parental Sexual Standards
Self-Permissiveness and Perceived Permissiveness
of Peers and Close Friends
Summary, Conclusions, and Proposition Six
9. Family-Role Relationships and
Premarital Sexual Attitudes
Preface to Proposition Seven
Children, Aging, and Permissiveness
One-Parent Families and Permissiveness
Children in One-Parent Families
Birth Order and Permissiveness
Summary, Conclusions, and Proposition Seven
10. Final Analysis: Propositions, Theory, and Summation
Review of Propositions
A Proposed Theory
Integration of Propositions and Theory
Some Implications of the Theory and Its Propositions
Final Summary and Conclusions
Appendix A: Questionnaire Used in Five-School Student Sample
Appendix B: Questionnaire Used in Iowa College Student Sample
Appendix C: Questionnaire Used in National Adult Sample
Appendix D: Reliability and Validity
General Reliability and Validity
Reliability and Validity of the Scales
Appendix E: Simple Instructions for Use of Reiss'
Premarital Sexual Permissiveness Scales
Bibliography
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