한국의 10 대 청소년들의 성 행동 양상 = Patterns of Sexual Activities for The Korean teenagers

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The patterns of sexual activities for the Korean teenagers were examined. The respondents were 600 male and 629 female students from eighth to twelfth grade. The proportions of sexually experienced teenagers that were assessed with reference group, i.e., among the five best friends who were the same sex and age as the respondent, were about 37.6% for the male and 25.4% for the female students. The proportion of female teenagers who experienced abortion was approximately 6.4% when it was assessed with the reference group. It is possible to surmise from this statistic that least one out of four female teenagers who experienced sexual intercourse might be pregnant. The reason why so many sexually active female teenagers might be pregnant is highly related to low rate of using condom for the male teenagers. Less than 6.4% of the sexually active male students said that they had ever used condoms when they had sexual intercourse. In addition, there were very few male students who said they had consistently used the condoms. As an indirect index of measuring the respondents` sexual drive, they were asked what the socially admittable age limit for permitting sexual intercourse was. The proportions of the teenagers who answered tat the sexual intercourse should be postponed until people get married or they are over 25 years old were 2.2% for the male and 14.8% for the female respondents. The author concluded from these findings that most of the contemporary teenagers in Korea tend to involve in their sexual interaction without any sense of responsibility. Thus, the findings were discussed in the contest of safe sex and responsible behavior.