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The publication of renowned anthropologist and student of anthropologist Franz Boas, Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa brought the sexual revolution to the public scene, as her thoughts concerning sexual freedom pervaded academia.

Published in 1928, Mead's ethnography focused on the psychosexual development of adolescent children on the island of Samoa.

She recorded that their adolescence was not in fact a time of " storm and stress " as Erikson's stages of development suggest, but that the sexual freedom experienced by the adolescents actually permitted them an easy transition from childhood to adulthood.