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 agai nst the background of sexual and behavioural influences and messages about sexuality. I-depth interview about the sexual career was conducted for a sa mple of 30 young people (15 men and 15 women, age between 18 and 32, coveri ng the period from the respondent's early childhood to the present) whose s exual behaviour is more risky than of the rest of population. Content analy sis of the interviews confirmed the first research thesis that messages abo ut sexuality and the style of education are reflected in the visions of sat isfaction and affect particular sexual behaviour. The significance of the p ersonal meaning of sex came to the fore beyond the frame of theoretical exp ectations. This personal meaning of sex strongly interacts with sexual beha viour and sexual satisfaction of the respondents. The second research thesi s about the reverse proportion of the relation between sexual satisfaction and measure of the riskness of sexual behaviour war; confirmed only partial ly: sexual dissatisfaction increases the riskness of sexual behaviour in pe rsons for whom the personal meaning of sex is bound to self-confirmation an d personal success and thus to gainging new partners and new experiences. B ut sexual dissatisfaction does not affect the riskness of the persons who s ee the personal meaning of sex in the intimateness and partnership. Particu lar characteristic courses of sexual careers are documented by case studies .