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The objective of this paper is to focus on the methodologicalaspect in studying young people's sexuality. Due to the extreme sensitivityin studying this issue, an eclectic approaches to data gathering whichinclude survey, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, mediaclippings and daily _,field note is used. Five sexual indices developed fromthe 1994/'95 Sexuality and Marriage Values Survey is elaborated anddiscussed. The index score produced from the sexual indices for sexualbehavior are categorized into three groups: low, medium and high.Respondents who have a high score are assumed to be more liberal thanrespondents with a low score. The paper also discussed the advantages,disadvantages and how to make focus group and in-depth interview work insuch a conservative cultural setting. Finally, the paper speculate; in tryingto understanding sexuality referred to by researchers as ?ego-threatening ',?sensitive', and 'taboo topics' by using the eclectic approaches to datagathering. |
