Student Sexuality 1981

Sexual behavior and attitude to sexuality among students.

Topics: 1. Individual information: city of study; subject; degree
sought; type of school of high school graduation; source of financing
for studies; proportion of income earned oneself; military service or
conscientious objector; social origins; size of city of origin; manner
of raising and school achievement demands of parents; conduct of
parents regarding sexuality of respondent; general attitude to parents;
religiousness and religious conviction.

2. Political attitudes, learning conditions and future expectations:
political fundamental philosophy; party preference; political interest
and political participation; current and preferred housing situation;
major reason for the choice of subject and judgement on this decision
from current perspective; judgement on courses available, learning
conditions and achievement demands; feeling of social isolation;
expectations of the future; attitudes to alternative ways of life.

3. Partner situation: judgement on the situation with or without a
partner as well as several steady partners; duration of partnership;
total number of steady partnerships; reason for separation of the last
partnership; desire for marriage and desire for children; interest in
starting a family and a long life in a common dwelling.

4. The psychological and somatic situation: frequency of psychological
discussions; conversation partner; frequency of (psycho-) somatic
disturbances; frequency of therapy since start of studies;
participation in encounter groups; suicide attempt; stationary
psychiatric treatment; alcohol, nicotine and coffee consumption per
day; use of medication; use of drugs; age of sexual maturity.

5. Sexuality in childhood: masturbation practices in childhood;
heterosexual or homosexual contacts.

6. Conduct since puberty: masturbation behavior; petting; frequency of
coitus and coitus partner; orgasm during coitus; contraceptives used
and practices during coitus; homosexual behavior and partner as well as
practices with homosexual contacts; homosexual or heterosexual
orientation.

7. Sexual problems and sexual experience: extra-marital as well as
pre-marital relations; evaluation of extra-marital contacts; orgasm and
coitus behavior in the last 12 months; general evaluation of personal
sexual life; sexuality and partnership.

8. Attitudes to sexuality: attitude to extra-marital sexual
intercourse and sexual practices of men and women; attitude to a
partner with pre-marital experiences; attitude to legislation regarding
abortion and homosexuality; projective questions on coitus experience,
masturbation and regular homosexual contacts as well as sexual
relations among students.

The following questions were also posed to women: participation in a
women´s group; attitude to menstruation and menstruation pain; abortion.