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farajian H, zaroeian A. (2020). Phenomenological Exploration of Young People’s Sexual Understanding. refahj. 20(78), 229-256.
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Introduction: In our current society, there is a lot of complexity and diversity of behavior, given that, sexual understanding is of the challenging issues for the young people, and young generation does not know how to deal with it. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the young people’s sexual understanding, so the purpose of this study was to explore their sexual understanding.
Method: Current research was conducted by adopting a phenomenological approach and with purpose of examining young people’s sexual understanding. Research method was qualitative that was carried out with 18 young people from Shiraz. Sampling method was purposeful and consistent with theoretical saturation logic. Data collection technique was semi-structured in-depth interview. After a deep exploration of the interviews, the themes were extracted and analyzed following King and Horrocks (2010) thematic analysis model.
Findings: The results indicated two main areas: sexual understanding and consequences of sexual understanding. Each includes the following conceptual categories. Sexual understanding had two domains of free-thinking and conservatism, the consequences of sexual understanding included three domains of individual, family, and social. The findings underscore the young people’s positive understanding toward cohabitation, and prefer these relationships to marriage and its difficult conditions.
Discussion: The findings emphasize that culture and family play a significant role in reinforcing or consolidating a person’s sexual understanding. Some young people have an abnormal understanding as regards sexual issues, which makes them look at sex more openly and then experience cohabitation, temporary marriage or nikah mut’ah and some other types of sexual relationships.
Method: Current research was conducted by adopting a phenomenological approach and with purpose of examining young people’s sexual understanding. Research method was qualitative that was carried out with 18 young people from Shiraz. Sampling method was purposeful and consistent with theoretical saturation logic. Data collection technique was semi-structured in-depth interview. After a deep exploration of the interviews, the themes were extracted and analyzed following King and Horrocks (2010) thematic analysis model.
Findings: The results indicated two main areas: sexual understanding and consequences of sexual understanding. Each includes the following conceptual categories. Sexual understanding had two domains of free-thinking and conservatism, the consequences of sexual understanding included three domains of individual, family, and social. The findings underscore the young people’s positive understanding toward cohabitation, and prefer these relationships to marriage and its difficult conditions.
Discussion: The findings emphasize that culture and family play a significant role in reinforcing or consolidating a person’s sexual understanding. Some young people have an abnormal understanding as regards sexual issues, which makes them look at sex more openly and then experience cohabitation, temporary marriage or nikah mut’ah and some other types of sexual relationships.
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Received: 2019/12/23 | Accepted: 2020/08/16 | Published: 2021/03/14
Received: 2019/12/23 | Accepted: 2020/08/16 | Published: 2021/03/14
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