Postmodern psycho-social influences on the dysfunctional sexual beliefs of the Romanian youth

Post-modern society has witnessed the emergence of new sexual behaviours and beliefs among the youth and of new and revolutionary social communication channels. The present research explored the relationship between modern and traditional sources of information about sexual issues and dysfunctional sexual beliefs on a sample of 599 of young Romanian men and women (age ranged between 18 and 25 years). The results showed that dysfunctional sexual beliefs are negatively associated to reading sexual education books and positively to accessing the internet or discussing with friends. The discussion focuses on the need to develop more efficient tolls of sexual education. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Prof. Huseyin Uzunboylu.