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__ #25: Change in Sexual Activity __ Sexual behavior and activity of young people changed dramatically in the 1960’s and into the 1970’s. More young people were engaged in sexual intercourse, and they did so at an early age. A study in 1973 showed that 4.5 percent of West German youths born in 1945 and 1946 had experienced sexual relations before their seventeenth birthdays but that 32 percent of those born in 1953 and 1954 had done so. Also, there was a growing tendency for young unmarried couples that had no intensions of marrying or having children to start to live in the same household together. McKay, John P. __History of Western society__. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.