Quoting Jean-Marc Perreault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> 3. Our society is going faster and faster. My generation was earlier 
> than my parents', and perhaps the trend is simply still going. Puberty 
> hits earlier today than it did 100 years ago. This is bound to influence 
> the desire for sex.
> 
Are you sure?

I have this impression that when infant mortality was higher and life 
expectancy was shorter people were having children (thus they were sexually 
active) at a MUCH younger so that they could produce as many offspring as 
possible that might survive to their reproductive age. In fact, it seems that 
over the last 20-40 years the average age of childbirth has risen, although I 
don't have a statistic to back that up and do not feel motivated enough to give 
up grading papers and writing a manuscript to do so; but someone correct me if 
I'm wrong here.

Annette

Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
Department of Psychology
University of San Diego 
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
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