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Ageing and Attitudes about Sexual Morality*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2008

Stephen J. Cutler
Stephen J. Cutler
Affiliation:
The University of Vermont, Department of Sociology, 31 South Prospect Street, Burlington, VT 05405, USA.
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Abstract

This study analyses cohort changes in attitudes about sexual morality over the period 1972–1982. The attitudes of the older cohorts are significantly less permissive than those of the younger cohorts, but there is no evidence of a conservative shift. Further, the attitudinal stability displayed by the older cohorts might be construed as indicating rigidity or inflexibility were it not for the fact that the younger cohorts also display the same stable patterns.

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Research Article
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Ageing & Society , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 1985 , pp. 161 - 173
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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