An Attitude Survey
One study of the attitudes which college students expressed before marriage centered on premarital sex. Whereas a number of students thought that it was all right for them to live in coed college dorms, or share summer beach houses and winter ski resorts in mixed group· ings, many of these same students said that they would not want their sons or daughters doing the same thing. In another study, a follow-up of several hundred young married former students, a majority of them expressed conservative views on sex relationships before marriage that did not involve real love affairs. Sex as .an expression of love wa approved; sex tor its own sake was not. Controversial views were expressed about using the pill before marriage. Incidentally, in anoth· er survey among noncollege population, including both young and older people, some ignorance about the pill was found. Few respon· dents knew that the pill functioned on a brain center to inhibit femal sex gland functions. More important, a number of teen-agers believed that birth control methods in general, including the pill, prevented venereal disease.
