SEX ON CAMPUS - A PRELIMINARY-STUDY OF KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR OF UNIVERSITY-STUDENTS IN DELHI, INDIA

Eight hundred and eighty-seven students from two major universities in Delhi, India, were surveyed, using a self-administered questionnaire, about their sexual knowledge, attitudes and behaviour. The data show that female students seem to be rejecting traditional Indian repressiv e sexual standards of premarital and non-procreative sex and the gende r differences are beginning to narrow. Despite their sexual awareness, the students were highly ignorant of the facts of life. Being male an d married did not make them more knowledgeable.