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September, 1977

Sex And The Single GirlThe latest major study of sexual activity among young American women finds that 35 percent of unmarried teenagers have had intercourse before the age of 20, compared with 27 percent in 1971. The survey, conducted by Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University and reported in Family Planning Perspectives, also finds that while more effective contraceptives are being used more regularly, the tendency is still not to use contraceptives at first but to use them conscientiously only a...