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Clarke, Averil. "Sin and Satisfaction: Race, Class, and the Sexual Activity of College-Educated Black Women" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA,, Aug 14, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p110628_index.html>

Clarke, A. Y. , 2004-08-14 "Sin and Satisfaction: Race, Class, and the Sexual Activity of College-Educated Black Women" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA, Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p110628_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: This investigation focuses on degreed black women’s sexual activity and what links exist between the initiation and frequency of sexual activity and their family formation outcomes. Based in Bongaarts and Potter’s [1983] proximate determinant framework, these analyses describe and account for degreed black women’s decision-making around sexual activity. I describe and explain the reasons for their level of sexual activity and how certain kinds of interactions with this proximate determinant produce their childbearing outcomes. I also use data from the NSFG [NCHS, 1995] to show how their sexual activity and the effect of sexual activity on nonmarital childbearing in particular and family formation in general differ from those of less educated blacks and from those of degreed whites and Hispanics. The ethnography aspect of this study reveals that degreed black women’s sexual initiation is influenced by the meanings that they and the members of their community assign to sexual activity. I also found that there is a normative connection between sex and romance such that the overwhelming majority of relationships that occurred after a woman’s sexual initiation included sexual activity. Analyses of NSFG [NCHS, 1995] data help to explain how degreed black women’s sexual activity is related to their family formation outcomes: virginity loss analyses link black women’s class achievement to greater motivation to separate sexual initiation from family formation; and the sexual activity analyses link black women’s class achievement to less access to the romantic involvement and sexual activity that facilitates marriage and childbearing.

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