Maternal Environments and Sexual Life of So-Called Cancer Ages in Shiga Prefecture

Part IV. SexualB ehaviora nd Contraceptiono f the PericlimacteriWc omen

Abstract

In the previous papers of this series, we have pointed out the characteristic features of the periclimacteric women in their sexual behaviors and consciousness of sexual environments. Coital frequency, contraception and the artificial interruption of pregnancy in the periclimacteric women are the items in this research. This paper describes another feature of those women, which in regard to the intelligence of the attitude on the contraception besides neither serious thought nor accumulation of knowledge on the sexual environments especially in their attitude of reproductive or contraceptive behaviors, we cannot but conclude that their ways of sexuality are as a whole very easy-going far beyond our conjecture. It is our deep regret that those women are inclined to expose the poverty in the grapnel to the sexual environments according to perhaps minimal level of sexual education.