Authors: 1Srikit S. Nurkamiden | 2Mappeaty Nyorong | 3Stang
1Study Program of Public Health, Faculty Public Health, Hasanuddin University of Makassar
2Health Promotion Department, Faculty of Public Health, Hasanuddin University
3Biostatistics Department, Faculty of Public Health, Hasanuddin University
srikitnurkamiden@gmail.com | stangbios@gmail.com | mapp.pkip@gmail.com
Abstract
Adolescent are an element of a changing society. Lacks of adolescent knowledge about reproductive health and obtaining information from wrong sources were some of the causes of adolescent problems. This study aims to analyze sexual behavior before marriage in adolescents in Tenda Village of Hulonthalangi subdistrict, Gorontalo City. This research used qualitative method with case study approach. Informants in this study were teenangers who have had sexual intercourse before marriage 7 participants. Data collection techniques used indepth interviews and data were analyzed by using content analysis method. The result showed that informants obtained information about sex through peers and mass media. Informants will refuse when first invited to have sex before marriage. Peers who have had sex before marriage affect the sexual behavior of informants. The most commonly used mass media for accessing sexual information was social media facebook and youtube. The empty and quiet home situation was used by informants as a place to have sexual intercourse before marriage. The informant did not obey his parent’s orders and continued to have sexual intercourse before marriage.
Keywords: Sexual Behavior, Marriage, Adolescent.
