Survey shows that about 70% of college students accept premarital sex
About 70% of college students accept premarital sex
This report received a total of 17,966 valid questionnaires. The majority of the surveyed population were women, accounting for 60.4%, and men accounted for 39.6%. The average age of the survey respondents was 20.2 years old. In the sexual orientation survey, 89.5% of the respondents considered themselves heterosexual, while the proportions of homosexuals and bisexuals were 2.5% and 5.1% respectively.
Regarding premarital sex, 23.6% of all survey respondents believe that there should be no premarital sex under any circumstances; 31.7% believe that premarital sex is allowed if you have feelings for the other person; 31.8% agree that it is prerequisite for marriage. Premarital sex; only 3.6% of college students believe that premarital sex can be had with or without feelings.
The attitudes of male and female college students towards premarital sex are significantly different. 31.3% of women believe that they should remain chaste and should not have premarital sex under any circumstances. This proportion is significantly higher than that of men (12.0%).
In addition, 23.3% said they could not accept their partner having premarital sex, 26.5% said it was acceptable, and 49.0% said "not sure, it depends on the situation." There is no significant difference in attitudes between men and women on this issue.
In addition, 76.8% of the respondents said they would not consider getting married during college, and 0.2% of the respondents were already married. 90.3% of the respondents said they would not have children during college; 4.8% of the respondents believed that they would consider having children during college if financial conditions allowed; 4.2% of the respondents believed that they would consider having children if their families supported it.
Over 20% of college students have had penetrative sex
The survey shows that 67.6% of college students have (had) love experience, and there is no obvious difference between men and women. Among the survey respondents who have (had) love experience, 42.9% have only dated one male (female) friend, while college students who have dated five or more friends only account for 8.7% of all survey respondents.
20.3% of the respondents had had penetrative sex. Among the survey respondents who have had sex, 45.6% had sex for the first time between the ages of 11 and 18. The proportion of men who had had sexual intercourse (28.4%) was significantly higher than that of women (14.9%). Only 15% of all first-year students surveyed have had sexual intercourse among first-year college students, while among fourth-year students (including fifth-year undergraduate students), this proportion increases to 43.4%.
Over 10% of girls who have sex have experienced pregnancy
11% of people who have ever had sex have experienced (caused) pregnancy. Among women who have sex, 10.1% have experienced pregnancy, and the rate of repeated pregnancies is 3.2%; among men who have sex, 11.8% have caused their partner to become pregnant.
In the survey, 360 people reported that they or their partners had experienced abortion, accounting for 9.9% of the survey respondents who had had sexual intercourse. Among them, about a quarter had experienced "repeated artificial abortion", and 7.8% had experienced "more than three artificial abortions."
Among the students with abortion experience, most (61.4%) chose to go to regular public hospitals to receive abortion and related health services, and 29.4% chose regular private hospitals, but a small number of teenagers also chose small clinics (6.1 %) or even self-medication (7.2%).