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An exploratory study of Muslim adolescents' views on sexuality: Implications for sex education and prevention

BACKGROUND: This paper describes the results of an exploratory qualitative study on Muslim adolescents' views on sexuality in the Netherlands. METHODS: Data were gathered from an Internet forum on which 44 Muslim and 33 non-Muslim adolescents discussed sexuality as it relates to Islam. These di...

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Autores principales: Smerecnik, Chris, Schaalma, Herman, Gerjo, Kok, Meijer, Suzanne, Poelman, Jos
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2940920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20815921
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-533
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author Smerecnik, Chris
Schaalma, Herman
Gerjo, Kok
Meijer, Suzanne
Poelman, Jos
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Schaalma, Herman
Gerjo, Kok
Meijer, Suzanne
Poelman, Jos
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description BACKGROUND: This paper describes the results of an exploratory qualitative study on Muslim adolescents' views on sexuality in the Netherlands. METHODS: Data were gathered from an Internet forum on which 44 Muslim and 33 non-Muslim adolescents discussed sexuality as it relates to Islam. These discussions were subsequently analyzed for content using Nvivo 2.0. RESULTS: Our analysis revealed several issues that are relevant for the design of future sex education programs targeting Muslim youth. Apart from some expected outcomes regarding, for example, taboos on sexuality, sex outside marriage, abortion, homosexuality and conservative gender roles, our analyses showed that in cases of disputes 1) discussions were polarized, 2) opponents used the same Qur'anic passages to support their views, and 3) the authority of an Imam was questioned when his interpretation of Qur'anic passages was not in line with the views of participants. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings show that current approaches to sex education among Muslim youth are likely to be unsuccessful given the rigidity of sexual norms in Muslim society. In addition, we also identified new barriers to sex education among Muslim youth (e.g. lack of respect for an Imam who opposes a youth's views on sexuality).
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spelling pubmed-29409202010-09-17 An exploratory study of Muslim adolescents' views on sexuality: Implications for sex education and prevention Smerecnik, Chris Schaalma, Herman Gerjo, Kok Meijer, Suzanne Poelman, Jos BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: This paper describes the results of an exploratory qualitative study on Muslim adolescents' views on sexuality in the Netherlands. METHODS: Data were gathered from an Internet forum on which 44 Muslim and 33 non-Muslim adolescents discussed sexuality as it relates to Islam. These discussions were subsequently analyzed for content using Nvivo 2.0. RESULTS: Our analysis revealed several issues that are relevant for the design of future sex education programs targeting Muslim youth. Apart from some expected outcomes regarding, for example, taboos on sexuality, sex outside marriage, abortion, homosexuality and conservative gender roles, our analyses showed that in cases of disputes 1) discussions were polarized, 2) opponents used the same Qur'anic passages to support their views, and 3) the authority of an Imam was questioned when his interpretation of Qur'anic passages was not in line with the views of participants. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings show that current approaches to sex education among Muslim youth are likely to be unsuccessful given the rigidity of sexual norms in Muslim society. In addition, we also identified new barriers to sex education among Muslim youth (e.g. lack of respect for an Imam who opposes a youth's views on sexuality). BioMed Central 2010-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC2940920/ /pubmed/20815921 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-533 Text en Copyright ©2010 Smerecnik et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Meijer, Suzanne
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2940920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20815921
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-533
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