Heterosexual relationships
Teenagers
In a survey given in 1997, 44.4% of female high school students reported that they had had
heterosexual
relationships and 7.5% of the entire group had had coital experiences.
Of the group who had had coital experiences, 38.7% claimed to have been
coerced and 32.3% attributed the reason to love. In a group of students
who had not performed vaginal
intercourse,
about half the students were open to the idea of having sex and blamed
their lack of experience on the lack of opportunities. However, 44.7% of
students accepted light kissing and 31.6% accepted
holding hands
as permissible behavior in dating. The majority view was that virginity
should be kept until marriage, with 88.1% of the group. For the survey
of male students, 16.2% admitted to having had coital experiences,
mostly with their girlfriends (74.7%). On the other hand, 65.7% of male
high school students indicated a positive attitude towards premarital
sexual activity, but only 7.5% had had previous sexual experiences. As a
whole, the rate of students who had had sexual experiences increased in
the late 20th century.
[1]
Adults
A survey in 1991 indicated that, of surveyed adult males aged from 20
to 40, over 80% had had previous heterosexual relationships. Of the
80%, 44.7% reported their first sexual experience to have been with a
prostitute. A study of married couples revealed that about half the
people studied thought negatively about premarital relationships; in
general, the female partners were more open to premarital and
extramarital relationships. The double standard of relationships
[note 2] was hypothesized to cause psychological and physical (especially sexual) stress for females.
[1] Hymenorrhaphy, or hymen reconstruction surgery, is also popular in Korea, as the hymen is prized as the symbol for
virginity.
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