This study attempted to help young people to have correct understanding and attitude toward sex and collect basic data for developing proper sex education programs for youth by grasping their attitudes and opinions toward sex.
Subjects of this study were 610 middle?school boys and girls of D girls´ middle school and E middle school around Chonyeon?dong branch of Ewha Womans University Social Welfare Center, and data were collected from March 25 to April 30, 1996. And for analyzing data, a questionnaire composed of 32 items including general knowledge about sex education, school´s sex education, sex education at home, sexual problems and intersexual relationship was distributed and retrieved to analyze responds by percentage.
And the results are as follows;
1. Middle?school students answered that they thought sex education should include knowledge about sex, manners between opposite sex, family planning and population problem, and had opinions that sex education itself is necessary and must be executed by schools, families and society altogether.
2. Students received sex education at school were 76.2% of the whole, and they pointed out domestic science and biology as a proper subjec t of experiencing sex education. And youth wanted to know about intersexual relationship above all things and to receive sex education from the nurse?teacher.
3. Students received sex education at home were 39.5% of the whole, and girls responded much more positively than boys. The case of mother´s role as a sex educator was 68.5%, which revealed very higher level. And when asked parents about sex, 37.6% of students were answered naturally by way of examples, while 28.8% sometimes answered and sometimes not.
4. As for sexual problems, young people answered that main source of obtaining information about sex was friend, weekly or other magazines, and they all showed negative mental attitudes toward experience of menarche or wet dream. But psychological reaction when firstly knew about the course of child?birth was positive in general. Most students had a very conservative attitude toward chastity, and strikingly many students answered that both man and woman should keep their chastity for happy marital life.
5. Young people regarded inter sexual relationship as a natural course of growing up showing rather positive attitude toward it, and 73% of them answered that the basis of that relationship must be friendship. But students answered that when found attractive opposite sex they would not directly make acquaintance with him (or her) but just keep to himself (herself) and watch him (or her) were even 48.5% of the whole.
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