Abstract: Sexual behavior is the core of sexuality matters in adolescents and youths. In adolescents and young people risky sexual behavior has been recognized as an important health, social and demographic concern in the developing world. It is a priority public health concern because of the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among this age group. The main objectives were to assess the knowledge and attitudes towards sexuality and sexual behaviours among the University students and to understand the socio economic and demographic differentials on sexual behaviours. The data for the present study is a primary data collected from International Male students of Annamalai University of Tamil Nadu. A simple random sample has adopted to select the sample population from the 720 male students who were studied in 2015-2016. The total sample size was 235. Statistical tools like cross tabulation and Chi-square have been applied. The result shows that all the respondents were ever heard about STIs knowledge. But regarding particular symptoms, they had poor knowledge among the respondents. Little more than one-third of the respondents (37.0 %) were known about burning sensation followed by ulcer (27.7 %) and itching as symptoms. Overwhelming majority (81.1 %) of the respondents have knowledge through internet and more than half (55.3 %) have learnt from friends. Nearly eighty percent of respondents belong to age ≤20 have reported of have sexual relationship (intercourse) before marriage but in the case of age 26+ respondents, it was ninety two percent. Here more than half of the respondents (57.0 percent) have reported of practice of masturbation among the study respondents. Among the various independents variables age, religion, family types and monthly family income were significantly associated with dependent variable of sexual practice before marriage than the rest of variables and variables, like birth order, father’s occupation was significantly associated with the practice of masturbation among the respondents. Mother ‘education is more important to teach their children about sex education during adolescent.
Keywords: Sexual behavior, Masturbation, Sexual relationship (Practice).
Title: KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS SEXSUAL BEHAVIOR AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Author: Kh.Bimolata Devi
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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