Sexual Taboo and its Affection Factors(A Case Study of the Youth in Tehran

Abstract

The purpose of the present research is to determine whether there are sexual taboos among young people age from 15 to 30 residing in Tehran and to investigate the factors affecting this social issue. This research attempts to answer three questions and to obtain the empirical support for 8 main hypotheses. In this study, the target population is all the young people residing in Tehran age from 15 to 30 years old. In order to calculate the appropriate sample size, Cochran's formula was used and the sample size of 640 (<em>n</em>=640) was obtained. During the cluster sampling 640 Questionnaires were distributed. The questionnaires were prepared based on Likert scale to investigate the existence of sexual taboos among the adolescents and young adults in Tehran and to measure the different political, social, and cultural factors that impose restriction on disclosure of sexual subjects. In order to test the hypotheses, <em>t</em> test, Pearson test, Analysis of variance and regression analysis were used. The results show that there are sexual taboos among the young people in Tehran and there are social, political and cultural factors predicting these sexual taboos. The main factor that restricts the disclosure of sexual subject is the cultural factor.1)There is a significant positive correlation between the magnitude of cultural and social beliefs about restricting the disclosure of sexual subjects and the magnitude of sexual taboos.2)There is no significant correlation between the political factors that restrict the disclosure of sexual subjects and sexual taboos.3)There is a significant difference between men and women about the magnitude of sexual taboos. There are empirical evidences that women report stronger beliefs about sexual taboos.4)There is no correlation between sexual taboos and the education level of the young people.5)There is no correlation between sexual taboos and the occupation of the young people.6)There is a negative correlation between sexual taboos and the age of the participants. The older they get, the less they report sexual taboos and vice versa.