Women-Only Education Has No Influence on Sex
By Kang Shin-who
Staff Reporter
Students of women-only universities don’t differ much in their opinions on sex compared with female students who attend coed universities, according to a survey by The Korea Times.
About 45 percent of female students at coed schools and 40 percent at women-only schools saw no problem with having sex before marriage.
The survey, which sampled 100 students from both Ewha Womans and Yonsei universities, debunked the stereotype that students at women-only schools have traditionally been presumed to be conservative on sexual issues.
Seventy percent of female students at coed schools said they would allow kissing and petting with their boyfriends compared with 83 percent of women-only school students.
The written questionnaires found that 66 percent of Ewha students have dated versus 81 percent of Yonsei coeds. However, the poll showed that women-only school students still find talking about sex taboo _ 23 percent compared to 40 percent of coeds.
Among those opposed to premarital sex, 25 percent of Yonsei and 21 percent of Ewha students indicated this was due to feelings of guilt, saying ``I might feel guilty for my future husband.’’
While 66 percent of Yonsei University students met boyfriends at school, 40 percent of Ewha students met their partners through blind dates, according to the poll.
``Maybe students at women-only schools have been regarded as more conservative when it comes to sex, but I think they have more opportunities to talk about sex more deeply and open-mindedly as they are surrounded only by women,’’ said Choi Young-a, senior student at Ewha.
``I believe an understanding of sex is usually fixed before students go to college. This is why there was not much difference between two groups. Moreover, I think parents of women-only school students are conservative about sex issues, not the students themselves,’’ said Lee Yoo-eun, also of Ewha.
Global student reporter Chung Eun-ji contributed to this article. _ ED.