Population Council, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India.
Cult Health Sex. 2011 Mar;13(3):327-41. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2010.534819.
While several studies have documented the extent of pre-marital sexual experience among young people in India, little work has been done to explore the factors that are correlated with the timing of pre-marital sexual initiation. This paper examines age at initiation of pre-marital sex, circumstances in which first sex was experienced, nature of first sexual experience and correlates of age at initiation of pre-marital sex. Life table estimates suggest that pre-marital sexual initiation occurred in adolescence for 1 in 20 young women and 1 in 10 young men. For the majority of these young people, their first sex was with an opposite-sex romantic partner. First sex, moreover, was unprotected for the majority and forced for sizeable proportion of young women. A number of individual, family-, peer- and community-level factors were correlated with age at first pre-marital sex. Moreover, considerable gender differences were apparent in the correlates of age at first pre-marital sex, with peer- and parent-level factors found more often to be significant for young women than men.
虽然有几项研究记录了印度年轻人婚前性行为的程度，但很少有工作探讨与婚前性行为开始时间相关的因素。本文探讨了婚前性行为开始的年龄、第一次性行为的情况、第一次性经历的性质以及婚前性行为开始年龄的相关因素。生命表估计表明，对于 1/20 的年轻女性和 1/10 的年轻男性来说，婚前性行为发生在青春期。对于这些年轻人中的大多数来说，他们的第一次性行为是与异性浪漫伴侣发生的。此外，大多数人的第一次性行为没有采取保护措施，而且相当大比例的年轻女性的第一次性行为是被迫的。一些个人、家庭、同伴和社区层面的因素与第一次婚前性行为的年龄相关。此外，在与第一次婚前性行为年龄相关的因素方面，存在明显的性别差异，在同伴和父母层面的因素对年轻女性的影响比男性更显著。
