Survey on Premarital Sexual Intercourse in Malaysian Schools

Sexual intercourse among Malaysian adolescents is a major concern, especially with the worry of HIV/AIDS.

A cross-sectional school survey conducted on 4,500 secondary school students aged 12 to 19 years in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia found that 5.4% of the total sample were reported to have had sexual intercourse.

The proportion among male students who had had sex was higher (8.3%) compared with female students (2.9%).

The mean age at first sexual intercourse was 15 years. 1% of students reported that they had been pregnant or had made someone else pregnant.

Adolescent sexual intercourse was significantly associated with (1) socio-demographical factors (age, gender); (2) environmental factors (staying with parents); and (3) substance use (alcohol use, cigarette smoking, drug use).

The survey showed that 20.8% of respondents had taken alcohol, 14.0% had smoked cigarettes, 2.5% had tried marijuana, 1.2% had tried ecstasy pills, 2.6% had tried glue sniffing, 0.7% had tried heroin, and 0.7% had intravenous drugs.

Lee LK, Chen PC, Lee KK, Kaur J. Premarital sexual intercourse among adolescents in Malaysia: a cross-sectional Malaysian school survey. Singapore Med J. 2006 Jun;47(6):476-81.

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That’s the Malaysian data. 

Richard Chan knows that at any given moment round the world

79,000,000 people are having sex

58,000,000 are kissing

37,000,000 are relaxing after having sex AND

A few less fortunate and easily identified ones are reading emails!

OK la, since you are not having sex or kissing or tired after having sex, you might as well check out the results of the 2013 Time Out London Sex Survey HERE! to see how much more you are missing. ;-)