First, we need to get some definitions down."Sexual knowledge" describes the degree of certainty of understanding held about the areas of sexual physiology, sexual desire and sexual activity, pregnancy and birth control, and sexually related social problems.
"Sexual attitudes" describe views of sex education, sexual ethics, and premarital sex.
Yen Han-wen, Director of the Graduate School of Health Education at National Normal University told us, "In the last ten years we have accumulated 31 papers on sexually related issues. All used the questionnaire survey method to collect data. Most of the measuring techniques were devised by the researchers themselves, though some used techniques previously devised."
A series of studies done between 1977 and 1987 invariably concluded that the degree of knowledge about sex held by students on Taiwan is inadequate.
In terms of sexual attitudes, a 1986 survey by G. P. Cernada et.al. shows that 22.8 and 22.9 percent of the respondents approved of premarital intercourse for women and men respectively with their future marriage partner, while approval for premarital sex with someone one loves was approved for women and men by 11.5 and 11.7 percent of respondents respectively. The data show attitudes to be quite similar for both men and women, suggesting the absence of a "double standard."
Most of these surveys investigated the impact of age, sex, residence, education, parental influence, and profession on attitudes, but the only relationship which appeared invariably was between the sex of the respondent and the attitudes toward sex.
Studies done in the R.O.C. have been few, with almost all focused on unmarried student populations (see table).
In 1986, Cernada et. al. took a sample of 3,600 of the three million women in Taiwan between fifteen and 29, interviewing 3,185 over two months, or 86 percent of the sample, and discovered sexual activity increased with age.
In 1987, Kuo Ming-hsueh surveyed the sexual behavior of fifth-year technical college students and found that sexual activity of all types had clear increases since the surveys by Wang Hung-ching in 1978. Especially worthy of attention is that the percentage of boys having had sexual intercourse increased from 20.69 percent to 55.15 percent, while the percentage for girls went up from 3.96 percent to 6.86 percent.
The times are indeed a-changing.
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Survey on Masturbation, Sexually Explicit Printed Matter, and Sexually Explicit Films
Survey on Masturbation, Sexually Explicit Printed Matter, and Sexually Explicit Films.
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