DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, FACULTY OF ARTS, CONSTANTINE THE PHILOSOPHER UNIVERSITY IN NITRA

The paper presents the preferred models of sexual activity by Korean respondents. Preferred models of sexual activity differ across countries and cultures. Conservative societies (like: Koreans form South Korea), have mostly negative attitude towards sexual activity out of wedlock. In this society intimate relationship is accepted by marriage people or when the couple plan to marry (Hwangbo Yon 31. 01. 2017). In spite of slowly changes in the traditional value system of Koreans (strongly based on Confucianism which focuses on importance of family and institution of marriage) which occur shift to a little bit of more liberal towards premarital sex, especially by young Koreans (www.phys.org; www.koreatimes.co.kr). Premarital sex is connected with living in cohabitation union and also with single motherhood. In this country there is a discrepancy between the actuality that cohabitation has become popular and the negative social views of cohabitation. Nowadays, searching through Internet sources and magazines, we can find articles about cohabitation (living without marriage) and single mothers (in Korea – unwed mothers) (www.phys.org; www.koreatimes.co.kr; HaeRyun Kang 2015). It shows that processes, such as globalization, westernization and Sexual Revolution, have an influence on emerge cohabitation and change attitudes – what means that premarital sex is observed in Korean society, but on a small scale and social attitude toward cohabitation is mostly negative, especially by elder generation. The paper presents the results of a statistical analysis carried out as empirical research concerning students from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, in South Korea which focused on the preferred models of sexual activity. The presented issue is only a small part of the conducted research on family and alternative marriage and family life forms. Independent variables such as: sex, frequency of participation in religious practices or the lack of such participation differentiate the respondents‘ statistically significant opinions concerning the models of sexual activity. The analysis of the survey results has been conducted based on the models of sexual activity standards proposed by I.L. Reiss in 1967. Despite the fact that these standards were proposed 50 years ago they still exist and what‘s more some of them dominate in societies around the world.models of sexual activity, sexual initiation, sexuality, premarital sex cohabitation

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