WHEN IS SEX FUN? SEXUAL SATISFACTION AMONG SLOVENIAN YOUTH
WHEN IS SEX FUN? SEXUAL SATISFACTION AMONG SLOVENIAN YOUTH

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of the paper is to provide, on the basis of a survey of youth sexuality in Slovenia, support for the thesis that sexual experience, including sexual satisfaction, is largely socially con-strued. First, the indices of satisfaction and dissatisfaction among Slovenian respondents with their first and most recent sexual intercourse are presented and compared to the results of similar surveys conducted in Austria and Germany. Then, some cultural and social causes of variation in the levels of sexual satisfaction of Slovenian youth are analysed in the next two parts of the paper. The analysis focuses on two sets of variables influencing sexual satisfaction – the first represents the socio-cultural context of sexual communication, and the second, the internal dynamic of sexual communication. The analysis is motivated by a hypothesis that both sets of variables are strongly linked to the level of sexual satisfaction, although it can be expected that the link will be more obvious for the second set of variables. This hypothesis is only partly confirmed by the available data.The variables related to the socio-cultural context of sexual communication are not systematically linked to the level of sexual satisfaction among Slovenian respondents, whereas the other set of variables has some influence on the level of sexual satisfaction, but less than expected.

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