T10-P-05 What do Turkish teenage girls ask about sex?

• Published in: Sexologies : European journal of sexology Vol. 17; pp. S150 - S151
• Main Authors: Dogan, S., Ozkorumak, E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Masson SAS 01.04.2008
• ISSN: 1158-1360; 1878-1829
• DOI: 10.1016/S1158-1360(08)72935-9

The purposes of this study were to investigate the content of Turkish teenage girls’questions about sexuality and to gain some understanding of teenage educational needs about sexuality in Turkey. Questions were acceppted from teenage girls via e-mail by a montly magazine's editor (HEYGIRL). Questions about sexuality were classified and sent to either a psychiatrist or a gynecologist by the editor. During the period from April 2005 to September 2007, 55 consecutive questions responded by a psychiatrist- sex educators (SD) took part in the study. We determined that questions accumulated in seven main groups: 1.Relationship with boyfriend, 2.Sexual intercourse, 3.Porn/Internet, 4.Sexual orientation, 5.Masturbation, 6.Virginity, and 7.Sexual Avoidance. The biggest group included questions about boyfriend relationship (23%). In the second biggest group, the questions were related with sexual intercource (16%). Surprisingly, we found the same ratio in porn/internet questions and it was very high (16%). Sexual orientation questions frequency was 9%. Frequency of questions related with masturbation, virginity and sexual avoidance was equal and the percentage was 7%. The other aspects of sexuality (unwanted pregnancy, abuse, rape, negative body image, menstruation) were asked rarely. They don’t know how to cope with pressure to have sex and not to have sex. Unlike Western societes, there is no demand for information about sexually transmitted infections, abortions among Turkish teenage girls. Porn/internet is getting more important issues among young people.