It is one of the sources of information on sexual and nonsexual risk behaviors and their determinants in the country.Or. It gathers data from Filipino youth aged 15 to 24.
PINOY TEXTMATE SOP SERIES
It is a series of national surveys on the Filipino youth, conducted since 1982 by the University of the Philippines Population Institute and the Demographic Research and Development Foundation. The PSA obtained the data from the 2013 Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality (YAFS) Study. This incidence is lower among women at 27.4 percent. Young men are more prone to this behavior, with 41.2 percent of them having textmates that they have not met. The same pattern is observed in having textmates that they have not met personally.
The percentage of young men who said they have online friends that they have not met face-to-face is higher at 32.7 percent than women at 28.8 percent. The youth have many online friends, but admitted they have not met some of them personally. The percentage is much lower among men, with only 49 percent having an e-mail account and 50 percent having a social-networking account.įurther, only 2 percent of young women and men have personal blogs. More than half of young women have e-mail accounts and social-networking accounts at 55 percent and 56 percent, respectively. In terms of Internet use, around 61 percent of young women use the Internet, while among young men, the percentage is lower at 57 percent. This is despite data showing that the majority of 15 to 24 year olds own a cell phone and more than half of them use the Internet.Īround 81 percent of young women and 76 percent of their male counterparts have mobile phones. This practice is less common among young women, since only 10.6 percent of them engaged in this activity. Over a third, or 34.5 percent, of young men said they have sent or received sex videos through their cell phones or the Internet. Watching sex videos is also common among young Filipinos, particularly among males.
Nearly a third of young men, or 26.4 percent, visit sexually explicit web sites, while only 5.1 percent of young women visit these web sites. The majority, or 75.8 percent, of young men watched pornographic movies and/or videos while, among women, it is much lower at 38.1 percent. Only 28.4 percent of young women have accessed pornographic materials. Meanwhile, PSA data showed that apart from PMS and childbearing, young Filipinos have also been exposed to pornographic materials, such as movies and videos, which they access through mobile devices or the Internet.Īround 43.1 percent of young males have read pornographic materials. This may be the reason 11 percent of the surveyed Filipino females 15 to 19 years old are already either mothers or 13.6 percent have begun childbearing.įurther, some 2.6 percent were pregnant with their first child at the time of the data collection.
Some 83.8 percent of young women and 73.4 percent of young men did not use any form of protection during their first PMS. OVER a third of Filipinos aged 15 to 24 have engaged in premarital sex (PMS), and a majority of them do not use any form of protection, according to data collated by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).ĭata showed that 35.5 percent of young male Filipinos and 28.7 percent of young females have engaged in PMS.
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