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Our study revealed the sexual risk-taking behaviour of young people which showed that a sizeable number of young people have engaged in premarital sex and predominantly same sex behaviour among men and unprotected sex, reiterating the need of age appropriate sexual health education.

SEXUAL RISK BEHAVIOUR AND SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS IN ADOLESCENTS ATTENDING STI CLINIC

adults more generally, mainline Protestants are less likely to find abortion morally acceptable than premarital sex or gay/lesbian relations.

On Moral Issues, Not All Protestants Are Created Equal

In Islam premarital sex is considered haram, a forbidden act (Chakrobarty 2010).

Ethnic identity, religion, and gender: an exploration of intersecting identities creating diverse perceptions and experiences with intimate cross-gender relationships amongst South Asian youth in Canada

We come now to premarital sex, where the gender gap is narrowing very dramatically.

Young gender gaps

Among the male respondents, no less than 76.1 per cent said they would never marry a woman they know has had premarital sex. Of the entire pool of respondents, 44.8 per cent termed the entire concept of premarital sex " wrong".

Sex and the CITIES

The youths to whom these repertoire apply spoke repeatedly about their abstinence from premarital sex. This emphasis on virginity should be placed in the cultural context of Bolgatanga municipality.

Virginity, sex, money and desire: premarital sexual behaviour of youths in Bolgatanga Municipality, Ghana

That means that an estimated 44% of women who had had premarital sex misreported, but only 21% of HIV-positive women who had had premarital sex did so.

Young women in africa misreport sexual history

23 ( ANI ): A Maldives high court has overturned the sentence of public flogging of a 15-year-old girl for engaging in premarital sex following public outrage.

Maldives court annuls public flogging of teenage girl for premarital sex

Premarital sex is illegal in the Maldives, a popular honeymoon destination in the Indian Ocean, which observes elements of Islamic Sharia law as well as English common law.

Maldives court quashes flogging of teenage rape victim

However, Aras, Orcin, Ozan, and Semin (2007) found that male university students disapproved of premarital sex for both sexes.

Effects of gender and sex-role orientation on sexual attitudes among Turkish university students

HIV/AIDS is still considered a taboo in the Sudanese society and the parliament rejected proposal to make male condoms more available on the grounds that it will encourage premarital sex. (ST)

70,000 Sudanese are HIV positive: WHO

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