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The purpose of the study was to understand how peers affect the occurrence of sexual behaviors of the junior high school teenagers. The study adopts qualitative research method. Sixteen adolescents who are studying in junior high school or discontinuing schooling took part in this study as subjects. Semi-structured interview was employed to collect data. Open-coding was selected as the way to analyze the data. The main findings were as follows: 1. In terms of the sexual information discussion among the peers, most of them share with their close friends or the same sex friends. Sexual information discussion was easily induced by something with sexual hints. The effects of sexual information discussion among peers on interviewees were: add the knowledge to sex; reduce the guard on sex; have the ideas to try sex; and thinks sex is nothing. 2. The interviewees know their friends'' sexual experiences by five methods: ask other when chatting; share intimacy among close friends; show off to others; expose sexual affairs; and please the others. The sexual experiences'' contents share among peers can divide into two by the style of the sexual behavior took place: on generally situation, or by crime tricks. After the interviewees got to know their friends'' sexual experiences, they have the ideas to imitate or feel carefully on sex. 3. The attitudes of the interviewees to their friends who had sexual experiences generally show accepting and approve it. The attitudes of the interviewees to their friends who had no sexual experiences were: looking forward to the others have same sexual experiences; not hoping their friends have sexual behavior; or no commends. According to the results, suggestions for counseling and future studies are provided.
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