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.