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Mumbai students okay with pre-marital sex

Hindustan Times | ByNeha Bhayana, Mumbai
Feb 26, 2009 12:53 AM IST

Cool with pre-marital sex but not multiple partners. That is the profile of the typical Mumbai college student, according to an HT C-Fore survey, reports Neha Bhayana. See Graphics.

Cool with pre-marital sex but not multiple partners. That is the profile of the typical Mumbai college student, according to an HT C-Fore survey.

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Sixty-six per cent of 221 collegians surveyed said pre-marital sex was fine with the boys (77 per cent) more open to it.

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Sociologist Gita Chadha said it wasn’t surprising. “A study by Tata Institute of Social Sciences in the ’90s showed the gender difference. Girls have a more traditional attitude, boys are more liberal,” she said. “It is a prestige issue for boys. They boast about how many girls they’ve slept with,” said Payal Kamath (21).

Fifty-three per cent said it was not okay to have multiple partners at the same time. Sexologist Dr Prakash Kothari said the youth were not monogamous but mono-erotic — faithful to one partner at a time.

Methodology

Research organisation C-fore conducted the survey among statistically selected sample of 221 collegians between Feb 20-22. To ensure anonymity, a secret ballot was used. Forty-nine per cent females represented the sample.

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