Mead is best known for her research on sexual freedom and experimentation by young people in Samoa. Mead contrasted this aspect of Samoan culture with which aspect of culture among American people?

Repressed sexuality

Explanation:

Sexual repression is the state in which a person has been prevented from expressing their sexuality. Sexual repression is always related to the feeling of guilt or shame. These feelings are related to sexual impulses. The sexual repression varies according to the culture and moral systems.

Thus here Mead who is best known for her research on sexual freedom and did the experimentation on the people of Samoa. She expressed the cultural differences between American people and Samoa people related to their repressed sexuality.