Phenomenological exploration of young people sexual understanding

Introduction: In our current society, there is a lot of complexity and diversity of behavior, given that, Sexual understanding is one of the things that stresses and our young people generation doesnchr('39')t know how to deal with it. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the of young people sexual understanding and the purpose of this study was to explore the young people sexual understanding. Method: Current research was conducted by adopting a phenomenological approach and with purpose of examine of young people sexual understanding. Research method was qualitative that carried out with 18 young people (9 Women and 9 Man) of Shiraz city. Sampling method was purposeful and consistent with theoretical saturation logic until phenomenological explore the sexual understanding of young people. Information collection technique was semi - structured deep interview. After a deep exploration of the interviews, the resulting data separated based on the analysis model of content the King and Haroux. Findings: The results indicated two main areas: sexual understanding and consequences of sexual understanding and each includes the following conceptual categories. Sexual understanding had two domains of free - thinking and conservative understanding and the consequences of sexual understanding included three domains: individual, family, and social. The findings underscore to young people positive understanding of toward roommates and relation concubine, and prefer these relations to the provision of marriage difficult conditions. Discussion: The findings emphasize that culture and family play a significant role in reinforcing or consolidating person sexual understanding and that person sexual understanding also influence on family and culture. Some young people have an abnormal understanding to sexual issues, which makes them look at sex more openly and then experience roommates, prostitution and relation concubine.