Undergraduate student's opinion concerning the condom use and its influence on sexuality

Abstract

In order to detect the undergraduate student´s opinion about the condom use and its influence on sexuality, a five-question questionnaire was applied in 534 undergraduate students from Ribeirão Preto (Nursing, Medical, Psychology, Pharmacy-Biochemistry). Concerning the results, the most frequent answers are emphasized. A total of 216 (40,5%) of the interviewed people referred that they did not know if “the use of condom is an anti-natural procedure”, 467 (87,5%) agreed with the sentence “the condom use avoid AIDS and other STD”. In question 3, 408 (76,4%) disagreed with “condom must be worn only as a contraceptive method”, In the questions “condom use offend the sexual partner” and “the condom uses interferes in sexual pleasure”, 328 (61,4%) and 291 (54,5%) did not know the answer respectively. By evaluating these results, we observed that the belief on myths associated to condom use, as a factor that interfere on sexual pleasure is relevant. The negative beliefs attributed to its use must be worked in order to not interfere on human sexuality. The correct and sistematic use of condom, in the AIDS era, must be incorporated in people´s bahavior, since its efficacy is certain as a STD preventive method.