An Investigation of Premarital Sexual Permissiveness of University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Students
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the premarital
sexual permissiveness of a random sampling of the 1971-72 summer
school student body of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. A
secondary purpose of this study was to determine the degree of
equalitarianism females showed regarding premarital sexual attitudes.
The population sample consisted of 52 females and 38 males who
were all undergraduate summer school students. All of the students
were given a self-administered anonymous questionnaire containing
questions regarding both male and female premarital sexual standards.
The data were analyzed by using the "contrived" five item scale
to determine same sex and opposite sex permissiveness for both male
and female respondents. A test of unrelated measures was used to
check for significant differences between male and female premarital
sexual attitudes and for self and opposite sex permissiveness as a
measure of equalitarianism.
An analysis using percentages was made of the total responses
with regard to agreement with coital items, to find out the overall
permissiveness level for men and women.
The results of these analyses indicate the following: that
females expressed more permissive attitudes regarding male standards
than did males; that males expressed more permissive attitudes toward
female standards than did females; and that females were less
equalitarian than males.
Subject
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse -- Students -- Attitudes
Sexual ethics -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
Premarital sex -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse