Sexuality Development in Adolescence and Beyond: Commentary on Arbeit

In her article on adolescent sexuality development, Miriam Arbeit [this issue] conceptualizes adolescent sexuality as a realm of desire, pleasure, and social development, raising issues of negotiation, empowerment, ethics, and identity. This is quite different from the standard approach that classif...

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Veröffentlicht in:Human development 2014-01, Vol.57 (5), p.287-291
1. Verfasser: Moshman, David
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:In her article on adolescent sexuality development, Miriam Arbeit [this issue] conceptualizes adolescent sexuality as a realm of desire, pleasure, and social development, raising issues of negotiation, empowerment, ethics, and identity. This is quite different from the standard approach that classifies adolescent sexuality as a type of 'risk taking' and then explains it in terms of a special adolescent tendency to take irrational and pointless risks, which is, in turn, explained by alleged deficits of the immature adolescent brain. Thus, Arbeit redirects the literature in a more scientifically productive direction. Others have provided important critiques of the literature on adolescent sexuality and pregnancy [Macleod, 2011; Males, 2010], but no one to my knowledge has so insightfully integrated research and theory regarding adolescence, sexuality, and developmental processes. In this commentary, I pursue further questions concerning just what is developmental in adolescent sexual development and how a relational developmental systems approach broadens our conception of development and enables us to identify developmental change beyond childhood. I then consider issues of promoting sexuality development in secondary and higher education. Copyright S. Karger AG, Basel. All rights reserved. Any further use requires written permission from the publisher. http://www.karger.com/journals/hde_gl.htm
ISSN:0018-716X
1423-0054
DOI:10.1159/000367857