Dana S. Levin

TL;DR: Assessing which socialization discourses communicated by parents and peers contribute to sexual risk and health outcomes (sexual assertiveness, positive sexual affect, and condom self-efficacy) found that greater exposure to abstinence messages predicted lower levels of sexual experimentation, whereas exposure to sex-positive messages predicted higher levels.

TL;DR: Being older, being raised outside the United States, being less religious, and being homosexual was each predictive of more sexual experience and exposure to peer messages that were accepting of casual sex was associated with more sexual partners, casual sex encounters, and sexual experience.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined links among sexual messages received from parents and friends, the sexual attitudes of young men and women, and the sexual experiences of those youth, and concluded that social work can use empirical research to support an agenda committed to engendering sexual health among youth.

TL;DR: This paper examined women's experiences as soldiers in the Israeli army and found that most women complete their military service during their emerging adulthood years, while men complete their service in their early 20s.

TL;DR: The authors examined representations of romance narratives in WWE's two highest rated programs (Monday Night Raw and Friday Night Smackdown!) over a 6-month period, revealing evidence of six central romance narratives (Prince Charming, Dark Romance, Femme Fatale, Gold Digger, Cougar, and Woman Scorned).