Rethinking sexual agency: proposing a multicomponent model based on young people’s life stories

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Table 1. Characteristics of the four studies.

Study/ Title of Article	Authors and year of publication	Number of interviews	Age of participants	Gender	Ethnic background	Self-identified sexual identities
Do I score points if I say “No”?’ Negotiating sexual boundaries in a changing normative landscape	Cense, Bay-Cheng and Van Dijk, 2018	68	16–21	Women, Men	White-/Moroccan-/Turkish-/Antillean-/Surinamese- Dutch	Mainly heterosexual
Sexual discourses and strategies of ethnic minority youth in the Netherlands	Cense 2014	46	12–22	Women, Men	Moroccan-/Turkish-/Antillean- and Surinamese- Dutch	Heterosexual
Navigating identities: subtle and public agency of bicultural gay youth	Cense and Ganzevoort 2017	14	21–30	Men, Women and Transgender	Various bicultural- Dutch backgrounds	Lesbian, gay and bisexual
The storyscapes of teenage pregnancy. On morality, embodiment and narrative agency	Cense and Ganzevoort 2018	46	17–25	Women	White-/Surinamese-/ Antillean- Dutch	Heterosexual

Figure 1. Integrated model of four components of sexual agency in social context.

Cense, M. 2014. “Sexual Discourses and Strategies among Minority Ethnic Youth in the Netherlands.” Culture, Health & Sexuality 16: 835–849.

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Cense, M., and R. R. Ganzevoort. 2018. “The Storyscapes of Teenage Pregnancy. On Morality, Embodiment, and Narrative Agency.” Journal of Youth Studies. doi:10.1080/13676261.2018.1526373.

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