Passionate uprisings: Young people, sexuality and politics in post‐revolutionary Iran

Mahdavi, Pardis

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“…A group of ethnographic studies depict radical changes with regard to sexuality among young people. For instance, an ethnographic study among sexually experienced youth in Tehran showed a dramatic change occurring in the sociosexuality of young people (Mahdavi 2007). Another study emphasised the role of the revolution in creating a crisis of the family in Iran (Khosravi 2007) but disregarded changes that have occurred since the revolution, such as access to global media and the expansion of communication technology.…”

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Perceived norms of premarital heterosexual relationships and sexuality among female college students in Tehran

Farahani¹,

Cleland

2015

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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This paper describes perceptions of the societal acceptability and acceptability among peers of different types of premarital heterosexual relationships in Iran. Sources of variation in subjective norms are assessed. Results derive from a survey conducted in 2005 of a representative sample of 1743 female college students from four multidisciplinary universities in Tehran using two-stage random cluster sampling. An anonymous pilot-tested questionnaire was used. Respondents displayed remarkable heterogeneity and ambiguity concerning the social acceptability of premarital heterosexual friendship, dating and physical contact, but expressed greater certainty about the unacceptability of premarital sex. The majority (77.5%) reported that premarital sex was socially prohibited, while about one third (33.1%) were unsure about the social acceptability of having a boyfriend and dating before marriage. Peer norms were perceived to be more liberal but, nevertheless, very few peers were thought to be in favour of premarital intercourse. Older students, those with educated fathers and those studying in a mixed-sex university perceived norms to be more liberal than their counterparts. Access to satellite television, a major source of exposure to new information and values about sexuality, was a major predictor of liberal peer norms. It appears that a significant proportion of young people in Tehran have broken with tradition with regard to premarital social interaction and romantic friendships, but the majority still conforms to traditional cultural and religious values regarding abstinence before marriage.

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Perceived norms of premarital heterosexual relationships and sexuality among female college students in Tehran

Farahani¹,

Cleland

2015

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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“…Factors such as westernization, modernization, education, social networks and worldwide communications, information technology; and a rapidly widening generational gap have created grounds for changes in value systems and norms within this country [37, 51, 56, 62]. …”

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Paradoxical attitudes toward premarital dating and sexual encounters in Tehran, Iran: a cross-sectional study

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BackgroundThe purpose of this study is to assess attitudes toward premarital dating and sexual encounters in individuals aged 15–49 years in Tehran.MethodsUtilizing the attitudes section of an original cross-sectional study (n = 755) aimed at assessing sexual health needs of adults, this paper examined personal attitudes towards premarital dating, non-sexual relationships and sexual encounters in both male and female adults aged between 15–49 years. Multi-stage cluster random sampling and a validated/reliable questionnaire were used. Descriptive, bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted using statistical software.ResultsThe results indicated that the majority of the participants were supportive of dating. Almost three-fourths of the males were more positively inclined towards non-sexual, yet tactile, affectionate interactions between unmarried males and females as opposed to only half of the females (70 % vs. 50.5 %). Also, males held significantly more liberal attitudes than females in their acceptance of premarital sex. On preserving virginity prior to marriage, 43 % of the males felt that it was important for a female to be a virgin, whereas only 26 % felt it was important for males to remain a virgin. Interestingly, more females (61 %) supported the importance of a female’s virginity compared with the importance of males’ virginity (48 %). This study showed that, being a male, of a younger age, single, and being less religious or being secular were important determinants of a liberal sexual attitude.ConclusionThese results might reflect a socio-cultural transition in the sexual attitudes of different age groups of participants - a phenomenon that will need empirical studies to unpack in the Iranian socio-cultural context.

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“…These gaps can allow room for resistance. Pardis Mahdavi explains that even in post-revolution Iran, where the clergy has control of the state and morality police (komiteh) patrol the streets searching for transgressors to arrest, there is a developing-and defiant-subculture of extramarital sexuality among the young (Mahdavi 2007).…”

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Sexuality and the Dimensions of Power

Brickell

2009

Sexuality & Culture

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Power, many scholars agree, is intrinsic to the relationships between sexuality, individual experience and social dynamics. Beyond this basic agreement, though, writers and researchers have adopted different foci. This article critically reviews several approaches to the power-sex relationship, and suggests that four readily discernable but interlaced dimensions of power operate upon the sexual: definitional, regulatory, productive and unequal. As a number of examples from the literature show, these ideal typical forms twist and interweave in both theory and practice. I suggest that to be mindful of all four facets of power and their interrelationships is to account for multiplicity, and to avoid the reductive characterizations that have sometimes characterized academic writings on power and sexuality. In this way, both theory and research in the area of human sexuality can be more thoroughly conceptualized.

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Passionate uprisings: Young people, sexuality and politics in post‐revolutionary Iran

Cited by 45 publications

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Perceived norms of premarital heterosexual relationships and sexuality among female college students in Tehran

Perceived norms of premarital heterosexual relationships and sexuality among female college students in Tehran

Paradoxical attitudes toward premarital dating and sexual encounters in Tehran, Iran: a cross-sectional study

Sexuality and the Dimensions of Power

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