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In a survey of Swiss schoolboys (Biener, 1973:p64)[1], 41% declared having learned masturbation by trial, 25% would have learned from friends, 3% had read about it or seen it depicted, 4% learned from adults, 14% did not remember its mode of onset, and 13% claimed never to have given themselves to the practice. Another study[2] informs about the sexual coming of age according to a questionnaire among 16-19-year-olds. Jarecki (1961a;b)[3]
asked 2 groups of 40 mothers in the
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[1] Biener, K. (1973) Jugendsexualität und Präventivmedizin; Brongersma (1987:p129-30), op.cit.
[2]Michaud, P. (1977) Queslques Aspects de la Sexualité des Adolescents de 16 à 19 Ans dans le Canton de Vaud. Thesis, Université de Lausanne
[3] Jarecki, H. G. (1961a) Die Einstellungen von Müttern zu Problemen der Kindererziehung: Eine vergleichende Voruntersuchung, Psychol Ekon Prax [Czechoslovakia] 20:111-35; Jarecki, H. G. (1961b) Maternal attitudes toward child rearing: A cross-cultural pilot study, Arch Gen Psychia 4:340-56
[4] “Dangers of rape; perversions; sex crimes; leads to insane asylum; thinks about it; homosexuality; more susceptible to men who want to take the child with them; weakens loss of sense of shame (sic); can lead to domination by lust; later less satisfaction from spouse; emotional coldness; etc.)”