The Sexual Behavior of Men in the Federal Republic of Germany

The sexual behavior as well as occupational and social situation of
men.

The survey was conceived as a comparative investigation for ZA
Study 1124.

Topics: 1. The occupational and social situation (oral survey): size
of household and household structure; spatial distance to relatives;
characterization of residential area; assessment of personal condition
of health; height, weight; smoking habits and use of alcohol; attitude
to the death penalty, abortion, pre-marital sexual intercourse and
extra-marital relations; political interest and orientation toward new
things; psychological self-characterization and characterization of
ideal as well as actual partner; employment orientation and attitude to
employment (scale); attitude to employment of women (scale);
characterization of style of child-raising by parents; father or mother
as reference person; dominant parent in child-raising; most important
socialization authority in parental home or foster home; judgement on
marriage of parents; social origins; attitude to saving and sport;
length of marriage; judgement on the marriage in the course of time;
judgement on personal age at marriage; importance of areas of life;
attitude to marriage; judgement on size of personal circle of friends.

2. Sexual conduct (written survey): conversation partner about sex
questions in developing years; judgement on one´s own sex education;
openness of conversation in parental home; sex life of parents noticed;
personal illegitimacy; sex education authority; number of own
extra-marital or pre-marital children; judgement on time of birth of
first child for the marriage; assessment of perceived burdens during
pregnancy of partner; personal presence during birth process; type of
contraception practised currently; attitude to the pill for men and
sterilisation; number, age, status and time of getting to know steady
partner(s) with whom respondent has sexual intercourse; time interval
between meeting and first sexual intercourse as well as age of partner;
characterization of situation at first sexual intercourse and length of
this intimate relation; marriage with first intimate partner; total
number of intimate partners; frequency of intimacy; stimulating
situations; initiator; type and extent of sexual practices; orgasm;
desired activity of partner; contacts with prostitutes; secret sexual
desires; conversation about sexuality with partner; development of
intensity of sexual experience in the course of time and assumed
reasons for this development; fear of impotence; failure during sexual
intercourse; characterization of desired sexual partner; attitude to
masturbation; homosexual contacts; attitude to lesbian relations by
one´s partner; attitude to prostitution and pornography; frequency of
reading selected magazines; favorite name.

Demography: age; marital status; number of children; age and number of
siblings; position in sibling sequence; religious denomination; school
education; occupational training; occupation; employment; income;
number of recipients of income; household composition; respondent is
head of household; characteristics of head of household.

Interviewer rating: social class, date of interview, length of
interview; place of survey.