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Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents and Youths in Malaysia
In terms of wet dreams, the NPFDB
study reported that 63.2% of the
673 male respondents had had a wet
dream, and the mean age at first
experience was 13.8 years. Slightly more
than half of the respondents
(51.0%) had expected the event, and the
majority (73.9%) had not been afraid. By
comparison, 53.4% of the male
adolescents who had not expected the
event had also not been frightened by
the experience, indicating that
expectation is not associated with
absence of fear.
3.2.3. Sexual behaviour
Four aspects of sexual behaviour were
discussed in the literature: dating
behaviour; sexual debut; safe and unsafe
sex, including contraceptive use; and
masturbation.
(1) Dating behaviour
The 1994 -1995 National Study on
Reproductive Health of Adolescents
found that 73.5% of adolescents who
had a special friend of the opposite sex
(21.6%) had engaged in what they
perceived as “dating”. The frequency of
dating increased from 55.5% among the
13-15 year-old age group to 72.7% for
the 16-17 year-olds and 88.7% for those
aged 18-19 years. The main venues for
dating were shopping complexes, fastfood
centres and lake gardens. Around
72% admitted that they had held hands,
about 22% said they had kissed, and
11% said that they had engaged in
“petting” (Table 4). A higher percentage
of males than females reported that they
had engaged in petting.
In a 1995 study in Kuala Lumpur,
1181 unmarried respondents were
interviewed about their dating behaviour.
The results are shown in Figure 9. In the
study, 44% of the 1181 unmarried
respondents (15-21 years old) had dated.
The incidences of the various types of
behaviour engaged in during dating
varied between male and female
respondents for “kissing and necking”,
“petting” and “sexual intercourse”, with
males reporting a higher level than girls.
Female respondents reported a higher
level of “no physical intimacy” than male
respondents.
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