Sex Lives of Australian Teenagers

Description

Ground-breaking and controversial- an Australian Kinsey-for-teenagers Are teenagers more sexually active than they were ten years ago? How many teenagers have sex because of peer group pressure? How often do they regret having sex? What do they think of sex education? Adults make a lot of assumptions about what teenagers do and how they feel, but really have no idea. In early 2006, Joan Sauers conducted an anonymous online survey to find out. Teenagers from around Australia responded, talking openly and honestly about issues such as- intimacy and relationships; masturbation and sexual fantasies; sexual texting and chat room liaisons; sexual orientation and coming out; contraception and protection against STIs; pornography and the media; and coercion and sexual violence. Sex Lives of Australian Teenagers presents over a hundred of their responses in their original, unedited form - some of them funny and poignant, others startling and disturbing. Sauers' analysis of the survey responses is compassionate and non-judgemental; she believes teenagers can only develop healthy sexual attitudes when they are able to speak freely about their sexual experiences and learn about the e

Joan Sauers is a script editor, writer and the mother of a teenage daughter. She has worked on films such as Caterpillar Wish, The Heartbreak Kid and Feeling Sexy, and television series including Heartbreak High, The Ferals and The Little Things with Antonia Kidman. Joan is the author of 9 books on health, parenting and relationships, including Sex Lives of Australian Teenagers, Brothers and Sisters; Teething, Tantrums and Tattoos; and the best-selling A Grown-up Girl's Guide to Life. A documentary based on Brothers and Sisters was made for the ABC and broadcast to wide critical acclaim. Joan's writing has been published in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, Vogue and Marie Claire. Joan moved to Australia from New York in 1987, and now lives in Sydney.