Sexual information and practice in 16-year-old adolescents
Stanković, M.; Panić, V.; Jerković, I.; Vecerinović, S.
Medicinski Pregled 46(5-6): 205-208
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8105 PMID: 7869978 Document Number: 336850
We conducted an anonymous poll among 221 girls and 106 boys from the second grade of secondary schools in Somboru, Crvenka and Ruski Krsturu in order to collect data on some aspects of their sexual knowledge and behavior. By the 16th year of life 8.6% of the girls and 36.8% of the boys experienced coitus, while 48% of the girls and 72% of the boys experienced intimate caressing with the opposite sex. It has been assessed that their knowledge on the physiology of the sexual life and contraception is poor and overestimeted, especially among the boys. The sources of information are mostly inadequate which necessitates an organized approach to sexual education.