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Table 1 Distribution of descriptive statistics among university students, by gender* (SELFY, 2017, weighted data)

From: Sexual satisfaction among italian university students

 

Girls

Boys

Sexual satisfaction

 Satisfied

61.5

53.1

 Other

38.5

46.9

 

100

100

Internet pornography (%)

 Never

65.2

6.5

 Sometimes

29.8

46.8

 Often

5.0

46.8

 

100

100

Loveless intercourse (%)

 No

72.3

47.4

 Yes

25.7

52.6

 

100

100

Frequency intercourse in the last 3 months (%)

 Never

34.9

39.2

 No more than once a month

10.9

16.1

 2-3 times a month

13.0

11.0

 Once a week

14.4

12.8

 2-3 times a week

21.4

15.0

  >  3 times a week

5.4

5.9

 

100

100

Sexual Orientation (%)

Hetero

88,9

93.1

Not hetero

11.1

6.9

 

100

100

Self-perception (%)

 Feeling beautiful and self-confident

31.0

31.9

 Feeling beautiful and quite self-confident

19.4

26.0

 Feeling beautiful and no self-confident

16.8

22.9

 Feeling ugly and no self-confident

11.9

7.1

 Feeling ugly and self-confident

20.9

12.2

 

100

100

Agreement with the earliness of first intercourse for her/his own gender (%)

 No

52.1

15.4

 Little

34.2

32.4

 Quite

10.1

32.3

 Yes

3.5

19.9

 

100

100

Gender symmetry of opinions (%)

 Yes

27.9

46.3

 No

72.1

53.7

 

100

100

Importance of religion in life (%)

 Not at all

19.0

32.0

 Quite important

68.7

59.8

 Very important

12.3

8.2

 

100

100

Practicing religion (%)

 Not frequent

89.6

93.9

 Frequent

10.4

6.1

 

100

100

Parents practicing religion in student pre-adolescence (%)

 No

17.7

20.1

 Sometimes

66.0

63.7

 Frequently

16.3

16.2

 

100

100

Number of sexual partners (average)

1.7

2.0

Age at first intercourse (average)

17.2

17.3

Age (average)

21.1

21.2

Duration of current relationship (average)

2.6

2.3

  1. Source: 2017 SELFY Databases
  2. *Gender difference significant at p < 0.05