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Sexual behavior among university students in Nigeria

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Sexual behavior patterns among Nigerian university students and factors influencing them were studied. While premarital cohabitation is common, a large percentage (48%) had their first coital experience between the ages of 22 and 27. Religion does not appear to have a strong inhibiting influence on premarital sex, although it does affect the frequency of changing partners. Contraceptives, although known to almost all the respondents, are not widely used. The use of contraceptives had little influence on premarital cohabitation. Oral-genital, male-male, and female-female sexual practices are very uncommon.

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  1. University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

    Femi Soyinka M.D., M.P.H.

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Soyinka, F. Sexual behavior among university students in Nigeria. Arch Sex Behav 8, 15–26 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01541209

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