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76 Genus 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/genus76 and id is 1 raw text is: Caltabiano et al. Genus (2020) 76:38 https://doi.org/1 0.1186/s41118-020-00107-1 IN T RODCTION Genucs Changes in the sexual behaviour of young people: introduction Marcantonio Caltabiano*, Maria Castiglioni2 and Alessandra De-Rose3 *Correspondence: catabano@ Keywords: Sexuality, Youth, Contraception, Sexual orientation, Selfy Dipartimento di Economia, Universita degli Studi di Messina, Messina, Italy Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Youth and sexuality If the sexual revolution of the 1960s unveiled changes in the sexual behaviour of young people that had silently begun in the previous decades, recent years have seen new and relevant changes, spurred by social media and the web propagating easy-going lifestyles, even in countries where such transformation proceeds at a slower pace (Barbagli, 2013; Bozon & Kontula, 1998; Inchley et al., 2020; Treas, 2002; Wellings, Palmer, Machiyama, & Slaymaker, 2019). Today's young people are the grandchildren of men and women born in the 1940s and 1950s, who were the main actors in the sexual revolution. They are the heirs of the sexual revolution-as advanced by Billari, Caltabiano, and Dalla-Zuanna (2007)- growing up in a more liberal and permissive family environment compared to their parents and grandparents. The changes in sexual behaviour that characterised the last 50 years are related to a more general process of transformation, involving transition to adulthood, union for- mation and dissolution, and reproductive behaviour, which started in Northern and Western Europe between the 1960s and 1970s. This change slowly diffused elsewhere and was defined as the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) to distinguish it from the First Demographic Transition, which was the passage from a regime of high mor- tality and fertility to a low mortality and fertility one (Lesthaeghe & Van de Kaa, 1986; Van de Kaa, 1987; for a recent global update, see Lesthaeghe, 2020). These new features of contemporary societies have been interpreted mainly as conse- quences of a profound cultural change, with the emergence of new ideas and values that influence people's choices. Regarding sexual behaviour, two aspects are prominent: an increased emphasis placed on individual autonomy, including in sexual lifestyle, and the rejection of social control and rules (operated by the family, the church, the state, or other social institutions). Thus, premarital and extramarital sexual intercourse, extramarital fertility, and homosexual relationships have become more and more pub- licly disclosed and institutionalised. This radical change has also been powered by the © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which Springer Open permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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