TY - JOUR
T1 - Coital experience among adolescents in three social-educational groups in Urban chiang mai, Thailand
AU - Tangmunkongvorakul, Arunrat
AU - Carmichael, Gordon
AU - Banwell, Cathy
AU - Seubsman, Sam Ang
AU - Sleigh, Adrian
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - This article compares coital experience of Chiang Mai 17-20-year-olds who were: (1) out-of-school; (2) studying at vocational schools; and (3) studying at general schools or university. Four-fifths, two-thirds and one-third, respectively, of males in these groups had had intercourse, compared to 53, 62 and 15 per cent of females. The gender difference for general school/university students, but not vocational school students, probably reflects HIV/AIDS refocusing male sexual initiation away from commercial sex workers. Vocational school females may have been disproportionately affected. Loss of virginity was associated, for both sexes, with social-educational background and lifestyle, and was less likely in certain minority ethnic groups. Among males, it was also associated with age and parental marital dissolution, and among females, with independent living and parental disharmony. Within social-educational groups, lifestyle variables dominated, but among general school/university students, parental marital dissolution (for males) and disharmony (for females) were also important, and Chinese ethnicity deterred male sexual experimentation.
AB - This article compares coital experience of Chiang Mai 17-20-year-olds who were: (1) out-of-school; (2) studying at vocational schools; and (3) studying at general schools or university. Four-fifths, two-thirds and one-third, respectively, of males in these groups had had intercourse, compared to 53, 62 and 15 per cent of females. The gender difference for general school/university students, but not vocational school students, probably reflects HIV/AIDS refocusing male sexual initiation away from commercial sex workers. Vocational school females may have been disproportionately affected. Loss of virginity was associated, for both sexes, with social-educational background and lifestyle, and was less likely in certain minority ethnic groups. Among males, it was also associated with age and parental marital dissolution, and among females, with independent living and parental disharmony. Within social-educational groups, lifestyle variables dominated, but among general school/university students, parental marital dissolution (for males) and disharmony (for females) were also important, and Chinese ethnicity deterred male sexual experimentation.
KW - Thailand
KW - adolescents
KW - coital experience
KW - sexual coercion
KW - sexual debut
KW - social-educational groups
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84857169759&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17441730.2012.646837
DO - 10.1080/17441730.2012.646837
M3 - Article
SN - 1744-1730
VL - 8
SP - 39
EP - 63
JO - Asian Population Studies
JF - Asian Population Studies
IS - 1
ER -