By Marissa Jones Posted on October 4, 2012 | News | No comment <\/p>\n
A faculty-administered survey has found surprising results about the sexual activity of ACU freshmen. <\/p>\n
Dr. Jaime Goff, director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Clinic, began conducting an ongoing survey last year that observes how young adults relate sexuality to spirituality. <\/p>\n
The survey asked freshmen questions about their sexual attitudes, their dimensions of spirituality, their self-esteem, religious abstinence programs they had participated in and sexual behaviors they had engaged in. <\/p>\n
Goff found that 45 percent of freshmen who responded to the survey reported being sexually active. <\/p>\n
That was surprising to me, Goff said. But I talked to some youth ministers, and they said that was in line with what they were hearing in their youth groups. <\/p>\n
In the 2011 fall semester, freshmen were given a chance to complete a survey in their Bible classes concerning their views of sexuality and religion and how each are related. <\/p>\n
As a freshman if you see sexuality completely separate from your spirituality, how might that have either negative or positive effects on your future marriage or relationships? I want to see how this develops over time for people. <\/p>\n
Goff also discovered that there didnt seem to be any difference in self-esteem between students who are sexually active and those who werent. <\/p>\n
In some ways thats good, Goff said. That means they werent feeling incredibly shameful because we use a lot of shaming techniques I think with Christian young adults and teenagers. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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