Gender education of adolescent girls in modern conditions: medical and social aspects

The paper presents the analysis of various aspects of gender education of adolescents girls hospitalized to a children's multidisciplinary hospital in large Siberian city. The level of gender education of adolescent girls is evaluated, awareness in issues of puberty, safe sexual relations are studied, and the mean age of sexual debut is determined, the motivation for the beginning of sexual activity, the role of family in sexual and hygienic education of girls. 174 adolescent girls aged from 13 to 17 with various genital and extragenital pathology are interviewed in the survey. During the questioning teenagers have been distributed in two age groups. The obtained data justify a slight influence of family in sexual education of adolescents, self-development of hygienic habits, getting information on sexual intercourse from an intimate partner rather than from parents, teachers, psychologists and medical workers. The main reasons for the early beginning of sexual activity were curiosity, fashion for early sex and self-assertiveness.