Love Laughs at Andy Hardy: The Rise of the Heterosexual Male Teenager

May 1, 2005

The Rise of the Heterosexual Male Adolescent [1] Prior to the twentieth century, male adolescents were often presumed children in affect and interests, and thus excused from heterosexual potential or desire (Maynes, 1992; Stovkis, 1993; Cohen, 1999; Moran, 2000). Even during the first decades of the twentieth century, when industrialization,...