Factors Affecting Attitudes toward Premarital Sex

This book is a descriptive analysis of a particular all-female Turkish population's premarital sexual attitudes and behaviors. It explores the effects of background and attitudinal variables on attitudes toward women's premarital sexuality. The background variables investigated in this research include age, sexual orientation, city of birth, ethnicity, total monthly income, number of children, residential partner, employment status, social class, mother's educational background, and father's educational background. The attitudinal and behavioral variables include political participation, political denomination, interest in politics, attitudes toward social regulation, personal and political religiosity, modern and old-fashion sexism, attitudes toward unpaid labor, attitudes toward women's organizations, sex life quality, and sexual attitudes.

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Mehmet Atif Ergun received his master's degree in Women's Studies at Towson University. He is currently working towards a PhD at the University of Maryland Sociology Department, with an interest in feminist and queer theory as well as processes othering and ethnic conflicts.