Conduites à risque à l'adolescence : spécificité des filles et des garçons. Approche anthropologique1

Risk taking behaviors show attempts to escape from suffering, to struggle to live. They are different for boys and girls. Girls take suffering upon themselves and make of their bodies the very scene of that suffering, whereas boys throw themselves against the world in provocative, transgressive behaviours. Besides, when the will of the girl is to be unique, the will of the boy is to be the best.