Construction of premarital sexuality in university youth and patriarchal values

This study aims to determine the perception, opinion and attitude of university youth towards premarital sexual relationship and virginity. Premarital sexual relationship and virginity are phenomenas that are assumed to affect the everday life of young people considerably. Patriarchal values also give meaning to these phenomenas; a fact which is considered to influence the youth. In our society where traditional and modern values are felt in conjuntion, the presentation of youth's construction towards premarital sexual relationship and virginity compose the subject of this study. Social construction theory is used as the theoretical frame of the study. Designed through qualitative research method, conducted by face-to-face and in-depth interview at two universities in Nevşehir and İzmir, the study is interpreted in a descriptive way.