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Anthropologists claim that in many primitive societies the period of sexual development is openly acknowledged, and young people are given freedom for sexual experimentation. Usually initiation ceremonies indicate that they are now to be accorded adult status. They are surrounded with no taboos and no prohibitions, and they move smoothly into the adult roles of parenthood.
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Phillips, A.S. (1973). Sexual Attitudes and Behaviour. In: Adolescence in Jamaica. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02142-0_5
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