What’s Sex Got to Do with It? The Role of Sexual Experience in the Sexual Attitudes, and Sexual Guilt and Anxiety of Young Muslim Adults in Canada and the United States
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Abstract
The literature regarding sex and Muslims in North America is limited.The small body of research suggests that Muslims are relatively conservative regarding sex, though there is nuance in these findings.The current paper presents research on the association between sexual experience of young Canadian and American Muslims adults and their sexual attitudes, sexual guilt, and sexual anxiety.Participants were recruited online and a final sample of 403 young Muslims adults, mostly women, completed online surveys and a demographics questionnaire. Sobia Ali-FaisalResults revealed that more than half of participants had engaged in sexual intercourse, of which two-thirds had done so before marriage, while half of those who had not engaged in sex before marriage had thought about doing so.Analyses of variance were conducted to assess differences in sexual attitudes, sexual guilt, and sexual anxiety based on sexual experience.Young Muslim adults who had engaged in sexual intercourse held more liberal sexual attitudes, and reported less sexual guilt, and anxiety, than those who had not engaged in sexual intercourse.Similarly, those who had engaged in sex before marriage held more liberal sexual attitudes, and reported less sexual guilt and anxiety, than those who had waited until after marriage to have sex.Finally, those who had not had sex before marriage, but had thought about it, held more liberal sexual attitudes, and reported less sexual guilt and anxiety, than those who had not considered sex before marriage.These results indicate having sexual experience is associated with liberal sexual attitudes and relatively low levels of sexual guilt and anxiety.However, the directionality of this relationship is unclear, requiring further investigation.Despite the limitations of this study, the results have important implications for those working with young Muslim adults.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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