Background: Over the last three decades, China has undergone profound socioeconomic transformations and opening to the outside world. These transformations have induced significant changes and variations in sexual norms and behaviors and in the social context of sexual partnering. Age at marriage is increasing; premarital and extramarital sex are becoming increasingly common; and the demand and...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a disease that has spread all over the world. Premarital sexual behavior driven by desire with opposite sex or same sex. Talking about sexuality and reproductive health still taboo subject for teenagers, so children will seek it from various sources, one of which social media not information can be accounted for. This study aims to collect scientific evidence on impact ...

BACKGROUND More adolescents in Ethiopia are in school today than ever, but few studies have assessed the sexual behaviour of these learners. Thus, this study tried to assess pre-marital sexual debut and factors associated with it among in-school adolescents in Eastern Ethiopia. METHODS A cross-sectional school-based study was conducted using a facilitator guided selfadministered questionnaire...

UNLABELLED Background Attitudes towards sex and relationships influence laws about what is and is not permissible and social sanctions against behaviours considered unacceptable. They are an important focus for research given their links to sexual behaviour. The aim of the present study was to describe attitudes towards sex and relationships, to identify correlates of scores on a scale of sexua...

PURPOSE To explore the effect of perceptions of friends' romantic and physical behaviors on adolescent sexual behavior and the relative influence of friends' sexual behaviors and maternal attitudes on age at first sex. METHODS Using longitudinal data collected from 1943 adolescents who have never had sex at baseline in Cebu, Philippines, logistic regression assessed whether adolescents' perce...

This study investigated the influence of demographic factors on undergraduates’ perception of courtship and its relationship with premarital sex using the University of Abuja, Abuja as case study. Demographic factors identified in the study were family background, university environment, peers and social media. These factors were examined to determine their influence on the perception of underg...