Sexuality and Dating Experience Among Youths in Ibadan,Nigeria
| dc.contributor.author | Adewale, A.A | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-10T17:23:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-10T17:23:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
| dc.description | Full article attached | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The scope of sexual behaviour has extended beyond reproduction in Nigeria. This situation promotes pre-marital sex and youths’ susceptibility to sexuality-based social problems. Yet despite its importance, there is paucity of data on sexuality education in Nigeria. This paper examines sexuality and dating experience among youths in Ibadan, Nigeria, using a structured questionnaire and in-depth interviews. The discourse was situated within the ambit of Weber’s Social Action Theory. A three-stage stratified random sampling technique was used to select 400 respondents from the study area. The findings revealed a general misconception of sexuality among the respondents. Almost all the interviewees equated sexuality with romance and sexual intercourse. Issues described as sexuality by 83.2% of the respondents revolved around intimacy, while 16.8% expressed sexuality in terms of friendship. The majority of the respondents (87.8%) reported their knowledge of dating with marked variations in the frequency of its occurrence, ranging from weekly (33.5%) to occasionally (28.5%). Different factors identified as motivation for dating include: character (40.6%), religion (33.0%), love (14.5%), attraction (9.1%) and other factors (2.8%). Dating experience was however tainted by several crises such as deception, promiscuity, materialism and suspicion. A comprehensive sexuality education should therefore be promoted in Nigeria. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Akinwale, A.A (2010) Sexuality and Dating Experience Among Youths in Ibadan,Nigeria. International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Review 11(4) | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0781 – 3232 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | covenantuniversity.edu.ng/.../10+IJSSHR+SEXUALITY+%26+DATING. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.unilag.edu.ng:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/655 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Ebonyi University Press Abakaliki | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Staff publication; | |
| dc.subject | Sexuality | en_US |
| dc.subject | Youths | en_US |
| dc.subject | Institutions | en_US |
| dc.title | Sexuality and Dating Experience Among Youths in Ibadan,Nigeria | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |