Between Curiosity and Love: The Meaning of Premarital Sexual Behavior for Students in Malang City

DOI

10.2991/icss-18.2018.331How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Sexual Behavior, University Students, Premartial

Abstract

Sexual behavior is considered as contemporary activities and become part of adolescence lifestyle. The substance of this study is reveals the meaning of sexual behavior in the students of university perspective. The research design used was interpretive by referring to George H. Mead's symbolic interactionism theory. Data collection techniques using in-depth interviews and observation to students in the city of Malang. The results of this study show the meaning of sexual behavior for adolescents, namely: (a) practicing curiosity; sexual behavior to reach adolescent sexual maturity (b) proof of masculinity; to show courage, (c) proof of love; willingness to have sex with a partner (d) part of a youthful pleasure; as one of the activities to get pleasure in the present. This paper recommends that sexual behavior among adolescence, especially students, should be of particular concern to universities so that these activities can be suppressed. Then, sex education should be taught early so that adolescence understand sex behavior in detail.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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