Partners III - Students in the Soviet Union 1990

Growth and development of partner relations among Soviet college students, their attitudes to love and sexuality. Habitual and current sexual behavior in the age of AIDS. Topics: Belief in the "great love"; reflexion of the first steady friendship; moral orientations on structuring life; family constellation in childhood; relationship with parents regarding sexual questions, nakedness in parental home, family climate; siblings; philosopy of child-raising in parental home; personal world view; age at first masturbation and frequency; form of arousing first orgasm, age; socio-sexual precoital development, sexual maturity, first intimate contacts; first sexual intercourse, age, partner, initiative, coercion, reflexion, contraceptives used; knowledge and attitude to contraception, responsibility, use up to now; abortion, acceptance, experienced oneself; experiences in partnership and love; sexual and partnership activities; psycho-sexual and partner-centered self-evaluations; sexual habits; orientation to both sexes, partner mobility; sexual experiences, affairs, desires, acceptance of sexual practices, active-passive; current steady partner relation, commitment, emotional tie; partner also student; tenderness and sexual agreement; frequency of sexual intercourse, orgasms and pretended orgasm; number of partners in sexual intercourse in the last year and up to now; foreign partners in sexual intercourse; psychological and physical well-being; use of semi-luxury foods, tobacco and alcohol; experience of partner and sexual violence, rape; most recent intimate togetherness, sexual intercourse and orgasm; commitment to partner of most recent sexual intercourse; alcohol; concepts on partnership and structuring family life; AIDS: interest in this topic, communication, problems and insecurity.