Implications for adolescent sex education in Taiwan.

This first Taiwan-wide sample survey of adolescent sexual awareness, knowledge, attitude, and behavior shows that secondary school students there: lack basic knowledge about contraception and reproduction, are often not being taught adequately about these subjects in school, have fairly permissive attitudes about sexual relationships, particularly males, are sexually active, particularly males and those in the private vocational high schools (although less so than their US counterparts), want to learn more about the nature of intimate relationships between males and females, and look to school and public health agencies to be more active sources of information and education.