中国青少年的性观念

Teenage Sexual Attitudes in China

中国青少年的性观念一直是较少有人涉足的研究领域。利用1988年在四川省搜集的调查数据试图进行两方面的分析:其一,描述青少年对婚前性行为的群体态度;其二,测定影响青少年性观念的主要因素。在第二方面的分析中,我们用影响青少年性观念的预测变量估测了几个回归方程。旨在反映中美两国在这一问题上的主要相似处和相异处;并表明尽管有严格的法律和道德力量的约束,中国的青少年在某种程度上强烈反对这个年龄的性接触,但对他人走入“禁区”却表现出理解和宽容。

Not much is known about the sexual attitudes of Chinese teenagers. In this article we endeavor to address this void by examining the sexual attitudes of Chinese teenagers with survey data collected in Sichuan Province in 1988. Our analysis has two goals: first, to describe aggregate attitudes toward premarital sexual practices; and second, to identify the principal factors that influence these attitudes. To accomplish the second goal we estimate several regression equations with predictor variables known to influence teen sexual attitudes. Our analysis reveals major differences and similarities between China and the United States, and indicates that China's teenagers are somewhat strongly opposed to teen sexual contact, but seem to be more understanding of others who so engage, despite strict laws and public morality forbidding it.