title: Sexual learning, sexual experience, and healthy adolescent sex.
abstract: This chapter is organized around the question "How do adolescents learn to have healthy sex?" The chapter assumes that sexual learning derives from a broad range of both informal and formal sources that contribute to learning within the context of neurocognitive brain systems that modulate sexual motivations and self-regulation. The overall objective is to consider how adolescents become sexually functional and healthy and to provide a conceptual basis for expansion of sexual learning to better support healthy sexual functioning.
authors: Indiana University School of Medicine, Section of Adolescent Medicine.
authors: J Dennis
authors: JD
authors: Fortenberry
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology*