Black Female Adolescents’ Sexuality: Pleasure Expectancies, Sexual Guilt, and Age of Sexual Debut

Shemeka Thorpe; Amanda E. Tanner; Tracy R. Nichols; Arielle Kuperberg; Erica Payton Foh

doi:10.1080/15546128.2021.1892005

Black Female Adolescents’ Sexuality: Pleasure Expectancies, Sexual Guilt, and Age of Sexual Debut

Shemeka Thorpe
, Amanda E. Tanner
, Tracy R. Nichols
, Arielle Kuperberg
, Erica Payton Foh

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Abstract

This study examined individual and familial influences on Black female adolescents’ (N = 1426) sexual pleasure expectancies, sexual guilt, and age of sexual debut using data from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent to Adult Health. Results indicated significant differences between Black female adolescents that were sexually active and those that were not. Religious importance, having a residential father, and perceived pubertal timing were significantly associated with sexual guilt and pleasure expectancies. Religious importance and perceived pubertal timing were also associated with later ages of sexual debut. These results have implications for sexuality education and future research using sex positive and intimate justice frameworks.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	199-220
Number of pages	22
Journal	American Journal of Sexuality Education
Volume	16
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/15546128.2021.1892005
State	Published - 2021

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This study was supported, in part, by the Doug Kirby Adolescent Sexual Health Research Grant from the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington. This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Information on how to obtain the Add Health data files is available on the Add Health website (http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth). No direct support was received from grant P01-HD31921 for this analysis.

Funders	Funder number
Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington	P01-HD31921
Southern Rural Development Center
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Keywords

Black female adolescents
Sexual guilt
pleasure
religiosity
sexual debut

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