A Qualitative Study:Perceptions of Premarital Sexual Behavior among Teenage Girls

Background: Youth nowadays are encouraged to do premarital sexual practice like kissing or making out even some of them are okay with free sex. This happens because of assertiveness deficiany among teenanger.

Objective: This qualitative study aims to explore teenage girls’ experience in assetiveness toward premarital sexual behavior.

Method: Data were acquired through a thorough interview on eight teenage girls aged from 18 to 21 years old selected with purposive sampling technique. The data were analized with Colaizzi approach.

Results: The themes found related to teenage girls experience on premarital sexual behavior including sexual behavior determinant, reasons on being assertive, the assertiveness, its impact or effect, and obstacle of being assertive.

Conclusion: This study recommends healthy sexual education for teenage girls to prevent premarital sexual behavior by boldly stating the limitation on what to do and not do while in a relationship, by always having healthy communication with parents, by developing religion believes and knowledge, and as well by boldly reject any negative or unhealthy behavior while in a relationship.