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Paradoxical attitudes toward premarital dating and sexual encounters in Tehran, Iran: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study is to assess attitudes toward premarital dating and sexual encounters in individuals aged 15–49 years in Tehran. METHODS: Utilizing the attitudes section of an original cross-sectional study (n = 755) aimed at assessing sexual health needs of adults, this paper...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5006512/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27576489 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-016-0210-4 |
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author | Motamedi, Mahnaz Merghati-Khoei, Effat Shahbazi, Mohammad Rahimi-Naghani, Shahrzad Salehi, Mehrdad Karimi, Mehrdad Hajebi, Ahmad Khalajabadi-Farahani, Farideh |
author_facet | Motamedi, Mahnaz Merghati-Khoei, Effat Shahbazi, Mohammad Rahimi-Naghani, Shahrzad Salehi, Mehrdad Karimi, Mehrdad Hajebi, Ahmad Khalajabadi-Farahani, Farideh |
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description | BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study is to assess attitudes toward premarital dating and sexual encounters in individuals aged 15–49 years in Tehran. METHODS: Utilizing the attitudes section of an original cross-sectional study (n = 755) aimed at assessing sexual health needs of adults, this paper examined personal attitudes towards premarital dating, non-sexual relationships and sexual encounters in both male and female adults aged between 15–49 years. Multi-stage cluster random sampling and a validated/reliable questionnaire were used. Descriptive, bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted using statistical software. RESULTS: The results indicated that the majority of the participants were supportive of dating. Almost three-fourths of the males were more positively inclined towards non-sexual, yet tactile, affectionate interactions between unmarried males and females as opposed to only half of the females (70 % vs. 50.5 %). Also, males held significantly more liberal attitudes than females in their acceptance of premarital sex. On preserving virginity prior to marriage, 43 % of the males felt that it was important for a female to be a virgin, whereas only 26 % felt it was important for males to remain a virgin. Interestingly, more females (61 %) supported the importance of a female’s virginity compared with the importance of males’ virginity (48 %). This study showed that, being a male, of a younger age, single, and being less religious or being secular were important determinants of a liberal sexual attitude. CONCLUSION: These results might reflect a socio-cultural transition in the sexual attitudes of different age groups of participants - a phenomenon that will need empirical studies to unpack in the Iranian socio-cultural context. |
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spelling | pubmed-50065122016-09-01 Paradoxical attitudes toward premarital dating and sexual encounters in Tehran, Iran: a cross-sectional study Motamedi, Mahnaz Merghati-Khoei, Effat Shahbazi, Mohammad Rahimi-Naghani, Shahrzad Salehi, Mehrdad Karimi, Mehrdad Hajebi, Ahmad Khalajabadi-Farahani, Farideh Reprod Health Research BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study is to assess attitudes toward premarital dating and sexual encounters in individuals aged 15–49 years in Tehran. METHODS: Utilizing the attitudes section of an original cross-sectional study (n = 755) aimed at assessing sexual health needs of adults, this paper examined personal attitudes towards premarital dating, non-sexual relationships and sexual encounters in both male and female adults aged between 15–49 years. Multi-stage cluster random sampling and a validated/reliable questionnaire were used. Descriptive, bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted using statistical software. RESULTS: The results indicated that the majority of the participants were supportive of dating. Almost three-fourths of the males were more positively inclined towards non-sexual, yet tactile, affectionate interactions between unmarried males and females as opposed to only half of the females (70 % vs. 50.5 %). Also, males held significantly more liberal attitudes than females in their acceptance of premarital sex. On preserving virginity prior to marriage, 43 % of the males felt that it was important for a female to be a virgin, whereas only 26 % felt it was important for males to remain a virgin. Interestingly, more females (61 %) supported the importance of a female’s virginity compared with the importance of males’ virginity (48 %). This study showed that, being a male, of a younger age, single, and being less religious or being secular were important determinants of a liberal sexual attitude. CONCLUSION: These results might reflect a socio-cultural transition in the sexual attitudes of different age groups of participants - a phenomenon that will need empirical studies to unpack in the Iranian socio-cultural context. BioMed Central 2016-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5006512/ /pubmed/27576489 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-016-0210-4 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Motamedi, Mahnaz Merghati-Khoei, Effat Shahbazi, Mohammad Rahimi-Naghani, Shahrzad Salehi, Mehrdad Karimi, Mehrdad Hajebi, Ahmad Khalajabadi-Farahani, Farideh Paradoxical attitudes toward premarital dating and sexual encounters in Tehran, Iran: a cross-sectional study |
title | Paradoxical attitudes toward premarital dating and sexual encounters in Tehran, Iran: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Paradoxical attitudes toward premarital dating and sexual encounters in Tehran, Iran: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Paradoxical attitudes toward premarital dating and sexual encounters in Tehran, Iran: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Paradoxical attitudes toward premarital dating and sexual encounters in Tehran, Iran: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Paradoxical attitudes toward premarital dating and sexual encounters in Tehran, Iran: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | paradoxical attitudes toward premarital dating and sexual encounters in tehran, iran: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5006512/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27576489 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-016-0210-4 |
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