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This Survey was carried out during March, 15-April, 1983 to find to find out the attitude of primary school students toward sex education in their schools. The subject of this survey consisted of 702 sixth graders from two primary schools in Seoul. Major findings are summarized as follows. 1. Out of the 702 students, 56.1% wanted to be answered honestly about menstruation and phimosis and also 57.0% wanted frank answers about the process of birth. 2. In response to the question whether man and woman must marry in order to have a child, 76.8% agreed, while 13.8% disagreed and unknown 7.4%. 3. 51.7% of the students agreed that sex education is important as a basic curriculum, and 50.3% agreed that sex education should be incorporated to regular courses. 4. 35.9% agreed that their teachers’ sex education method and guidance are open mind, while 39.9% disagreed, and only 47.6% answered that they are easy to understand. 5. 75.9% of the students expected the effect of sex education, while 11.4% disagreed and 11.4% unknown. 6. 32.3% of the students thought a discussing sex in a classroom is dangerous, while 40.6% disagreed and 23.1% unknown and 33.2% of the students indicate that the sex education in primary schools is too early, while 50.3% disagreed, the rate of agreement was lower than that fo parents in response to the same question. 7. Only 29.8% of the students agreed to the idea of having male and female students in the same sex education class, while 63.7% disagreed. 8. 66.7% wanted the sex education teacher to be their school-nurse and 21.7% their class teacher. 9. Relating their attitude to the importance beginning age and content of sex education to such variables as the living standard, parents’ age and educational back ground, sibling order recognition of sexological terms and the experience of sex education, it was revealed that the variables like fathers’ occupation, religious background of the family experience of sex education and the recognition of sexological terms were statistical significant. The group of students with the experience of sex education and the ability to recognize the terms showed more positive attitude to the importance beginning age and content of sex education, while their response to the co-education in the sex education course was more negative. In relation to the religious background the family, Christian parents were more open minded about the topic while Buddhist were less so. In terms of the occupation of their parents, professional and engineer parents showed more positive attitude to sex education while those unemployed or employed in physical labor showed more negative attitude. The findings of the study indicated that the levels of expection and need for sex education were significantly high. The fact suggested that strategies for having sex education currently in effect specified and incorporrated to regular courses should be studied and developed as early as possible.
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