S Rushkarska | PubMed Health

PubMed1990

[The psychosomatic aspects of defloration (a sociomedical study)].

The phenomena surrounding the first sexual act are examined rather poorly from their psychosomatic side during investigation of human sexuality and reproductive behaviour. Frequency and character of the bleeding during defloration, experienced pain, a complex of fear due to pain and bleeding, motivation, evaluation and self-esteem of the behaviour, self-esteem on timeliness of the first sexual act, the attitude of the husband to defloration performed by other partner before marriage. Some of the obtained data are compared with similar data, obtained by analogous studies in some European countries. Inferences are made, which could be used by services, rendering consultative help to young women, candidates for marriage and their partners.

Adult↗

PubMed1990

[Defloration (a sociomedical study)].

Object of the study were 100 women at fertile age, who informed retrogradely for events connected with disturbance of their virginity. It was established that defloration occurred not at exactly determined moment of the age of young women and girls, but at wider age interval from 16 to 20 years, during noon hours and at night, with equal probability during all seasons, excluding summer, when probability is twice as large, in various places: lodgings, in another's flats, during trips or youth brigades, duration of sexual prey is described, usage of alcohol, ect. An attempt is made to characterize the first partner and stability of the connection between partners, evolution of this connection, which is the background of defloration. The obtained data are compared with data on analogous studies in some other countries. The inferences are proposed as recommendations, which should be taken into consideration by parents, teachers and health services.

Adolescent↗