title: [The loss of virginity and sexual activity in adolescence].
abstract: A questionnaire was filled in anonymously aiming at studying the motivation, conditions for defloration and sexual activity of a total of 96 girls aged 15-18 from 4 schools in the town of Varna. It was established that 50% of them had had a sexual intercourse, in 77.1% the defloration occurred at the age of 16 or 17. 82.3% report "love" as their main motive, 12.5% report to have done it "out of curiosity" and only in 7.2% it happened "by chance". 36.4% were prepared psychologically for the act of defloration. In 42% the coitus occurred at parties, 43.7% in the evenings or at night, 13.5% prefer the summer and 11.4% the spring season. About one third of the interviewed continued their sexual relation with their first partner who in 41.7% happened to be their steady boyfriend. The frequency of the sexual relation was reported to be once a week by 9.4% every day by 5.2% and 30.2% could not determine it. Contraceptives were reported to be used by 34.4%, 27.1% use condoms and 22.9% interrupt coitus. Recommendations for healthy sex during adolescence are based on the results obtained as well as literary data.
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Vasileva
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Iustiniianova
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000367:Age Factors; D002031:Bulgaria; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012746:Sexual Abstinence; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012747:Sexual Partners; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data