J Korean Community Nurs.  2001 Mar;12(1):71-80.

The Needs of Sexuality Education in High School Students

• Lee JK
• Kim EJ
• Yom YH

Abstract

In an attempt to measure the needs of sexuality education according to sex, grade, type of school, this study was carried out. For this study, the questionnaires were given to 600 students of 4 high-schools in Seoul from March to April, 1999. Students never being received sexuality education were 32.5%. Even though in students being received sex education, the answer of being very instructive was only 2.2%. The needs of sexuality education in boy-student was high in sexual behavior and relationship domain as compared with the girl-student, especially high in masturbation and sexual dysfunction. In girl-student, the needs of sexuality education were high in abortion, sexual damage. In third-grade, the needs of sexuality education were high in personal skill domain as compared with the first and second-grade. And the second-grade's needs were high in sexual behavior domain. In academic school students, the needs of sexuality education were high in sexual behavior and sexual health domain as compared with vocational school. In conclusion, a variety of systematic sex education programs suitable for each characteristic of adolescence should be in need of being developed to the base on the sex educational needs of the students.

MeSH Terms

Adolescent
Education*
Humans
Masturbation
Surveys and Questionnaires
Reproductive Health
Seoul
Sex Education
Sexual Behavior
Sexuality*