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Article: What is sex? Students' definitions of having sex, sexual partner, and unfaithful sexual behaviour.
- Article from:
- The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
- Author:
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Abstract: In this study 164 heterosexual. Canadian university students were asked about their definitions of the terms having sex, sexual partner, and unfaithful. Students were asked to indicate which from a list of 18 sexual behaviours they would include in their definition of each of the three terms. Significantly more-behaviours were included in students' unfaithful definition than were included in the sexual partner definition and significantly more behaviours were included in the sexual partner definition than in the having sex definition. For example, while less than 25% of participants considered oral genital behaviour to be having sex, more than 60% thought that ...