Sexual behaviors of medical students: preliminary results

Results Mean age of the participants was 24 years. More than half of them (67.1%) reported having a sexual partner and 75.8% of them reported having sexual intercourse more than once a week. The decision preceded the act by a few seconds or minutes in 82.6% of subjects. Foreplay was important, very important or essential for 97.4% of subjects, while most of them (73.5%) considered that foreplay was equally important for both partners. The majority of participants reported that they don’t have a preferred timing (67.1%) or season (80.8%) for sexual intercourse. For most of the subjects it was very easy or quite easy to talk about sex with their sexual partner (95.2%) or with their friends (87.1%). The vast majority of the students reported informing themselves on sexual issues (83.8%) and information sources were primarily acquaintances (55%) and the internet (44.1%). Conclusions Sexuality seems to be important for this group of young adults. The decision to have sex is spontaneous, foreplay is an important component of sexual intercourse and the time of the day or the year doesn’t really matter. Students talk about sex quite open and inform themselves on sexual issues. This study employed a small, specific sample, thus the results are not representative of the general population.