Sexual education and satisfaction of sexually more active young people (a qualitative approach)

The study is a qualitative probe into the sexual health issues. Focus is on the concepts of sexual: satisfaction and riskness of sexual behaviour against the background of sexual and behavioural influences and messages about sexuality. I-depth interview about the sexual career was conducted for a sample of 30 young people (15 men and 15 women, age between 18 and 32, covering the period from the respondent's early childhood to the present) whose sexual behaviour is more risky than of the rest of population. Content analysis of the interviews confirmed the first research thesis that messages about sexuality and the style of education are reflected in the visions of satisfaction and affect particular sexual behaviour. The significance of the personal meaning of sex came to the fore beyond the frame of theoretical expectations. This personal meaning of sex strongly interacts with sexual behaviour and sexual satisfaction of the respondents. The second research thesis about the reverse proportion of the relation between sexual satisfaction and measure of the riskness of sexual behaviour war; confirmed only partially: sexual dissatisfaction increases the riskness of sexual behaviour in persons for whom the personal meaning of sex is bound to self-confirmation and personal success and thus to gainging new partners and new experiences. But sexual dissatisfaction does not affect the riskness of the persons who see the personal meaning of sex in the intimateness and partnership. Particular characteristic courses of sexual careers are documented by case studies.