TY - JOUR
T1 - Background and sexual experience of israeli medical students
AU - Hoch, Zwi
AU - Kubat (Seidenros), Hadassa
AU - Fisher, Menahem
AU - Brandes, Joseph M.
PY - 1978/9
Y1 - 1978/9
N2 - It is now general professional consensus that to develop a good human sexuality curriculum it is mandatory to first study the future target population. Such a study was done on a national basis at the four medical schools in Israel, concentrating on the senior students. The data on background, sexual experience, knowledge, and attitudes were analyzed and compared to findings of similar studies in other countries. This article reviews the results on background and sexual experience, also trying to analyze logical hypotheses of possible links between variables. Most Israeli senior medical students are unmarried Jewish Ashkenasi males, with a rather small proportion of females, Sephardic-originated Jews, Moslems, and Christians. Their sex education during childhood originated mostly from peers and literature, but was almost completely lacking at school. Masturbation started early, being more frequent for males. The majority of both sexes had dated, had gone steady, and had had sexual intercourse frequently with at least two partners. Only 5.4% of males had never experienced coitus. Intercourse with prostitutes was infrequent. The students' background has direct influence on their early sexual knowledge and experience. This in turn influences self-ratings on sexual matters. This is further correlated with sexual behavior.
AB - It is now general professional consensus that to develop a good human sexuality curriculum it is mandatory to first study the future target population. Such a study was done on a national basis at the four medical schools in Israel, concentrating on the senior students. The data on background, sexual experience, knowledge, and attitudes were analyzed and compared to findings of similar studies in other countries. This article reviews the results on background and sexual experience, also trying to analyze logical hypotheses of possible links between variables. Most Israeli senior medical students are unmarried Jewish Ashkenasi males, with a rather small proportion of females, Sephardic-originated Jews, Moslems, and Christians. Their sex education during childhood originated mostly from peers and literature, but was almost completely lacking at school. Masturbation started early, being more frequent for males. The majority of both sexes had dated, had gone steady, and had had sexual intercourse frequently with at least two partners. Only 5.4% of males had never experienced coitus. Intercourse with prostitutes was infrequent. The students' background has direct influence on their early sexual knowledge and experience. This in turn influences self-ratings on sexual matters. This is further correlated with sexual behavior.
KW - Israel
KW - medical students
KW - sexual experience
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0018045922&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/BF01542488
DO - 10.1007/BF01542488
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C2 - 718414
AN - SCOPUS:0018045922
SN - 0004-0002
VL - 7
SP - 429
EP - 441
JO - Archives of Sexual Behavior
JF - Archives of Sexual Behavior
IS - 5
ER -