Improved use of contraceptives, attitudes toward pornography, and sexual harassment among female university students.
This study describes sexual behavior over a 10-year period in a female student population. The use of condoms at first coitus increased from 40% to 77%. Sexually transmitted diseases decreased from 26% to 14%, and abortions from 11% to 5.5%. One-fourth of students had had anal intercourse, and 86% had performed oral sex. Half of the women had read pornography. The majority of women with experience of oral sex graded it as positive, whereas they graded anal sex as mostly negative. Twelve percent of the women had been sexually harassed, mainly by their male peers (80%).
Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D017280:Condoms; D004882:Erotica; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017406:Sexual Harassment; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology; D016387:Women's Health