HETEROSEKSÜEL TÜRK ERKEKLERİNDE DEMOGRAFİK FAKTÖRLER, CİNSEL KİMLİK VE CİNSEL İŞLEYİŞ

Bu araştırmanın amacı, erkeklerin cinsellik hakkında sahip oldukları bakış açıları incelemektir. Erkeklerde cinsel kimlik, demografik faktörler, cinsel işleyiş, evlilik öncesi ve sonrasında cinsellik algılarını incelemek açısından önemlidir. Türkiye’de erkek cinselliği üzerine az sayıda çalışma yapılmıştır. Araştırma için gerekli olan veriler, çalışmaya katılmaya gönüllü ve heteroseksüel olan 78 sağlıklı erkek bireyden sağlanmıştır. Katılımcıların seçimi, çalışmanın hassaslığından ve yeterli sayıda olmama tehlikesinden dolayı kartopu veri toplama tekniği ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Katılımcıların yaşları 23 ile 57 arasında ve ortalaması 30 olmuştur. Bireyler, çalışmaya katılmaya ve demografik bilgi formu ile cinsel öykü anketinde yer alan soruları cevaplandırmaya gönüllü olmuşlardır. Anket maddeleri, biyolojik kimlik ve cinsel yönelim soruları içermektedir. Her iki formda bulunan maddeler, daha önce yapılan çalışmalardan yararlanılarak araştırmacılar tarafından yapılandırılmıştır. Araştırmadan elde edilen bulgular arasında, katılımcıların çoğunun ergenlik ve yetişkinlik dönemlerinde kız arkadaş, komşu, okul arkadaşları ve akrabalarına cinsel ilgi gösterdiği belirlenmiştir. Aynı dönemde en yaygın cinsel işleyiş, cinsel ilişki olarak belirtilmiştir. Yetişkinlik dönemlerinde mastürbasyon ve cinsel ilişki tercih etmekte; cinsel hayatlarından oldukça memnun olduklarını ifade etmektedirler. Ayrıca, seks fantezilerini partnerlerinden daha fazla düşündüklerini belirtmişlerdir. Araştırma sonuçlarına göre çalışmamıza katılan Türk erkekleri diğer ülkelerde yapılan çalışma sonuçları ile benzer davranışlar göstermişlerdir. Örneğin, cinsel davranışları yetişkinlik dönemlerinde erotik fantezilerden fiziksel cinsel aktivitelere dönüşmektedir. Pek çoğu (%70) evlilikten sonra da mastürbasyona devam ettiklerini belirtmişlerdir. Erkeklerin %23’ ü kendilerinin ve partnerlerinin neredeyse tamamının birbirlerinden olağandışı cinsel istekler talep etmediklerini ifade etmişlerdir. Ayrıca, erkeklerin kadınlara oranla daha fazla cinsel fantezi taleplerinin olduğu yapılan araştırma ile tespit edilmiştir.

DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS, SEXUAL IDENTITY AND SEXUAL FUNCTIONING OF TURKISH HETEROSEXUAL MALES

The purpose of this study was to investigate males' perspectiveson sexuality. Sexual identity, demographic factors and sexualfunctioning in males are important to examine how they perceive andunderstand when it comes to sexuality before and after the marriage.Few studies were conducted on male sexuality in Turkey. A total of 78healthy heterosexual males volunteered in order to collect data for thisresearch. Due to the potential insufficiency for the necessary number ofparticipants, they were selected with the snowballing data collectiontechnique. Their ages ranged between 23 and 57 years old with anaverage of 30. Most of them (61%) were either married or being in arelationship. They agreed to participate in this study and responded theitems in two questionnaires, demographic data form, and sexual historyquestionnaire. Questionnaire items included biological sexual identityand sexual orientation questions. The items on both forms were semistructured, prepared by the researchers with implementing relatedprevious studies. Findings showed that most of the participants had asexual interest in others including the girlfriend, neighbor, schoolmates,and relatives during adolescence and adulthood times. Their sexualfunctioning was sexual intercourse during these periods. They mainlymasturbate, prefer coitus at home at least twice a week, and highlysatisfied with their sexual life. According to our results, likemasturbation habits, Turkish males showed similar sexual behaviorsand functioning compared to their international counterparts. Theirsexual behaviors transform into adulthood, from erotic fantasies tophysical sexual activities. Several males (70%) continued masturbation after marriage, which was an unexpected result. 23% of the maleparticipants normally don’t expect extraordinary desires from theirpartners and almost none of the partners expect them, either. They holdthoughts of sexual fantasies more than partners.

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